Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!rex!uflorida!mlb.semi.harris.com!trantor.harris-atd.com!trantor!chuck From: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: OPEN LOOK announced first (was: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend? Message-ID: <5478@trantor.harris-atd.com> Date: 11 Feb 91 13:49:11 GMT References: <2995@sodium.ATT.COM> <823@sdrc.UUCP> Sender: news@trantor.harris-atd.com Reply-To: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) Organization: Advanced Technology Dept, Harris Corp, Melbourne, FL Lines: 64 In article <823@sdrc.UUCP>, wggabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard) writes: > From article <2995@sodium.ATT.COM>, by esg@sodium.ATT.COM (Edward Gokhman): > > > The market share is a magic magnet in software business. > > Yes it is - and though Sun has more market share than any other single vendor, > add up the market shares held by HP, DEC and IBM and compare them to Sun. Well, that is pretty interesting. If you go by dollar volume, you get: Sun 29.1 HP 22.7 DEC 17.1 IBM 3.5 so Sun is outstripped, 43.3 to 29.1. But if you add up unit sales, you get a far more interesting number: Sun 151,000 HP PA 10,000 MIPS 45,900 IBM POWER 8,000 and Sun is leading, 151,000 to 63,900. Moreover, the MIPS number includes ALL MIPS-based platforms (mostly MIPS, DEC, and SGI), while the Sun number excludes Sun clones (another 36,000 systems). These unit volume numbers are for RISC systems only, and do not include HP's 680x0 systems. The numbers are for calendar year 1990. Even with the 680x0 systems included, Sun enjoys a clear advantage in unit volume. A further conclusion when including the dollar volume figures is that Sun ships more systems at lower cost than any other vendor. Sun's overall unit sales share is just over 40 percent. HP is next, with about 25 percent. Another instructive number: the volume share changes since 1989. Sun is up 1 point, IBM is up 0.9, HP is down 1.4, and DEC dropped an amazing 3.3 points. Every quarter, Sun ships around 5,000 more systems than it did the previous quarter. (Right now, Sun is shipping around 45,000 machines each quarter). This means that Sun ships more extra systems each quarter than MIPS ships in an entire year. In six months, Sun ships more extra systems than SGI or IBM's entire volume. And in a year, Sun ships more extra systems than DEC entire annual output. I find it amazing that Sun's growth rate exceeds its competitors' growth volume. More fun with numbers: 45,000 systems/quarter is 15,000/month, or about 500 systems every day of the year. That's 21 systems an hour, or a machine every 3 minutes or so. So when you arrive at work on Monday, somewhere around 1,500 new SPARCstations arrived on desktops since you left work on Friday. Just imagine: every three minutes, someone boots a brand-new SPARCstation! We've got to find this person! :-) ** Data sources: Alex Brown Investors Report (unit sales) and Dataquest (dollar volume). -- Chuck Musciano ARPA : chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com Harris Corporation Usenet: ...!uunet!x102a!trantor!chuck PO Box 37, MS 3A/1912 AT&T : (407) 727-6131 Melbourne, FL 32902 FAX : (407) 729-3363 A good newspaper is never good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever. -- Garrison Keillor