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- From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Upset about IBM misinformation.
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 14:53:33 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1993Jan25.061251.3520@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
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- In a previous article, brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) says:
-
- >Can an operating system that has only 5-10 or so mass market apps 9 months
- >after it is released, really be the desktop OS of the future?
- >(Yeah I know, Lotus, CA, and WordPerfect will have out apps soon... whoopie!!!
- >the number might hit 20!)
-
- How many mass market apps did windows have in the first 9 month?
- Not many.
-
-
- >NUMBER OF OS/2 2.0 SALES
-
- >How many times have you heard IBM telling us that rate of OS/2 sales is
- >growing fast? I can think of at least a dozen times they've said it to me.
- >Until I looked at the numbers I had more or less believed them.
- >
- >Let's take a look at the facts:
- >
- >From the first quote, we have 1 million sales in 4 months.
- >From the second source, we have ~.5 million more in next 3 months,
- >leaving 2 months in 1992 where they had hoped for .5 million more sales.
- >
- >At the October conference they were saying that OS/2 sales numbers were
- >increasing dramatically, but look:
- >
- >Sales Rate:
- >
- >Apr-Jul: 1 million / 4 = 250,000 per month
- >Aug-Oct: .5 million / 3 = 167,000 per month
- >
- >And then they projected:
- >Nov-Dec: .5 / 2 = 250,000 per month.
-
- I know of many companies, such as Price-Waterhouse that were waiting for
- the service pack before standardizing on OS/2. If the trade rags are
- right, Price-Waterhouse alone bought 25,000 copies in the beginning of
- November.
-
- Brian, yes these numbers for OS/2 are odd, but they are not unreasonable
- or unexplainable.
-
- Throughout your post, you keep saying that IBM is unethical because you
- don't believe IBM's numbers. Sounds more like a smear campaign to me.
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