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- From: rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: SPARC market share
- Message-ID: <3853@key.COM>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 20:14:00 GMT
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Advanced Systems, Fremont CA
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- I read yesterdays Wall Street Journal article on Sun and the other
- workstation makers yesterday. The WSJ was strongly questioning Sun's
- ability to compete in the market they pioneered. What bothered me about the
- article was the fundamentally sloppy analysis. They were 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?
-
- Sounded to me like the WSJ was playing favorites and trying to make the future
- they at some level want to see happen.
-
- Thanks.
-