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From: mhoffos@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs manual sales figures [summary]
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.133943.6547@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca>
Date: 3 Mar 91 20:39:43 GMT
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In article <TIM.91Feb28152445@kahlo.cstr.ed.ac.uk>, tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) writes:
>>>>>> On 26 Feb 91 01:18:33 GMT, Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM said:
> 
>  [...]
> That's a lot!  I reckon that must mean something like 100,000 serious
> users of Emacs, possibly rather more, but less than a million.  Does
> anyone know how many copies <some random word-processor> ships over
> its life?  how about <random commercial Unix editor/word-processor
> excluding stuff shipped with Unix (vi, ed &c)>?
> 
> --tim
> Tim Bradshaw.  Internet: tim%ed.cstr@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
> UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cstr!tim  JANET: tim@uk.ac.ed.cstr
> "...wizzards & inchanters..."

According to the latest WordPerfect Report, they (WordPerfect) are shipping
200 000 copies a month world-wide, which represents (according to the figures I
have seen) about 66% of the DOS word-processer market.  Last year, they had
$459 Million in sales.  Last year, they also reached a huge milestone:
cumulative sales of $1 billion.

Remeber this too: WordPerfect exists for *many* different platforms, including
the Mac, the Amiga, the Atari ST, UNIX V/386, System 370, the NeXT, the Data
General, etc.

These are in my opinion staggering numbers. I guess it is not that surprising
why WordPerfect is sysonymous with word processing!

I have no connection with WP, etc. etc.

Mike Hoffos
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mhoffos@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca
(Mount Royal College is a community college in Calgary, Alberta)

Disclaimer:     Mount Royal College doesn't speak for me, and I *certainly*
                don't speak for it.