Re: Unix install base

[Gene Rackow <rackow@mcs.anl.gov>]

There are already several commercial companies that gather information
along these lines.  The amount of info you are going to get by asking the
Sage group is going to only be a tip of the iceberg as to what may actually be 
out there.  I'm blanking on the name of the publication right now, but
I'm sure that if you call your local major vendor salesoid, they will be
able to point you at it.  In part is it claims as to how many machines they
have compared to their competition.

For the versions of unix you can get off the net,  it'g going to be
rather hard to say how many machines are actually using it.  Yuo could
possibly contact the acrive sites and ask for numbers downloaded or CDrom's
purchased, but that tells you very little.  I bought a CDrom, dowloaded 
a second version, and installed 40 machines.
--Gene


Steve Smith made the following keystrokes:
 >Nik Simpson wrote:
 >> 
 >> >Hi all,
 >> >
 >> >I am looking for stats on how large is the Unix installed base
 >> (worldwide)
 >> >compared to other platforms like NT or Novell (or others).
 >> >
 >> >Thanks in advance,
 >> >Yves Lepage
 >> >
 >> 
 >> You'll have to define what you mean by install base before you can get any
 >> sort of useful statistics. For example does
 >> a UNIX or NT server supporting 200 clients count as 1 or 200?, does private
 >> hobbyist's machines running LINUX count? etc. etc.
 >> 
 >> --
 >> Nik Simpson (ndsimpso@ingr.com)
 >
 >Also, are you just counting hosts or hosts + people using the systems,
 >and w/r/t servers are you interested in clients systems? I.e, please
 >state exactly what you need.
 >
 >-Steve
 >--
 >srs@home.net
 >