Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!kim
From: kim@mathcs.emory.edu (Kim Wallen {Psy})
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Number of NeXT's sold
Message-ID: <7216@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 17:50:51 GMT
References: <NONE> <5994@awdprime.UUCP> <johnc.669448131@s.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS
Lines: 39

In article <johnc.669448131@s.ms.uky.edu> johnc@ms.uky.edu (John Coppinger) writes:
>alexn@alexn.austin.ibm.com writes:
>
>>Does anybody out there have any solid figures (i.e, no blind guesses) about
>>how many machines NeXT has sold and how many machines they have backlogged?
>>I need this information for a private project which I am doing.
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>I seem to remember 25,000 sold and 100,000 anticipated by the end of the year.
>I think that estimate appeared in NeXTWorld's April 91 issue, but I'll have to
>verify that.
>-- 

From IDC's report on 1990 worldwide unit shipments of workstation/workstation servers:

Sun	141,800
HP	 75,550
DEC	 62,500 (includes VAXstations)
IBM	 17,000
I'graph	 14,470
Sony	 12,384
NeXT	 11,000
S.G.	  9,400


IDC`s report on 1990 $$ volume:

Sun	$2,352,000,000
HP	 1,539,000,000
DEC	 1,176,000,000
I'graph	   504,000,000
IBM	   476,000,000
S.G.	   422,000,000
Sony	   194,000,000
NeXT	    74,000,000

I cannot attest to the accuracy of IDC's figures.

Kim@unix.cc.emory.edu