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- From: paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham)
- Subject: Re: SPARC market share
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.233041.16697@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
- References: <3853@key.COM> <scs.722011958@hela.iti.org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:30:41 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Did this market grow at all? Is anyone surprised that a US$63 billion company
- that decides to have a major piece of this market won't get any if they are
- really aggressive?
-
- Why has Sun lost only 2% of this market in relative sales? Have they
- increased their turnover? Profit? [left as an excercise for the reader, but I
- have a 4th Q report if you need it, but not here]
-
- >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.
-
- Didn't Sun say "We support SVR4 so that vendors only have to do 1 port, and
- the UNIX market will get larger, and we will have a small piece of a large
- market and sell more Suns" ? Did they ever say "Sun aims to have a good UNIX,
- but its OURS, and you can't PLAY, and we want 100% of the UNIX market" ? I
- don't remember anyone saying that. Do you?
-
- -PaulR.
-