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- From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: Re: SPARC market share
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:52:38 GMT
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- rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
-
- >[Wall Street Journal was] criticizing Sun
- >for having lost 2% of the workstation market compared to significant
- >increases by IBM and SGI(Dec and HP have been pretty stagnant in terms of
- >market share).
-
- >The problem is that they were looking at Sun's market share, _NOT_ Sparc's
- >market share. None of the other companies they looked at have any serious
- >clone makers. Now I know the Sparc clone industry hasn't taken off wildly,
- >but I would guess they have increased their market share a bit more than
- >2% since last year. Does anyone have any good figures on this?
-
- I have no hard numbers, but recall reading that the sparc clone market
- was about 1% of the total sparc market, ie, 99% Sun, 1% clone. That's
- not 1% of the *total* market, but 1% of the *sparc* market.
-
- Losing 2% of the workstation market is a sigificant loss for Sun. It
- means that in spite of the largest installed base and massive software
- availability (much of which runs exclusively on SunOS), they still
- aren't holding their own.
-
- Every time Sun does a massive brain-damaged OS upgrade requiring
- difficult ports or conversions (see commentary in comp.sys.sun.apps and
- comp.sys.sun.admin) they open the door for vendors to convert to a
- different vendor's OS. Every time a *smart* application vendor does
- a port, they make things more and more general, making it easier and
- easier to go to non-Sun platforms. Every time an admin has to treat
- a new SunOS release as if it were a new workstation, they're going to
- sit back and consider a non-Sun solution as well.
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- zwicky@erg.sri.com.
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