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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

2228.0. "Top UNIX Vendors in 1992" by MRKTNG::SILVERBERG (Mark Silverberg DTN 264-2269 TTB1-5/B3) Thu Nov 19 1992 10:15

    The new list of the top 10 UNIX Companies was released by UNIXWORLD
    Magazine in its December issue.  Digital dropped from the number 4
    systems vendor in 1991 to number 5 this year.  The top 5 UNIX vendors
    in the systems & software catagories are:
    
    Systems
    --------
    1).  Hewlett-Packard
    2).  Sun Microsystems
    3).  IBM Corp.
    4).  NCR/AT&T Computer Systems Group
    5).  Digital Equipment Corp.
    
    
    Software
    --------
    1).  Oracle Corp.
    2).  Informix Software
    3).  Sybase, Inc.
    4).  Ingres Div. of ASK Corp.
    5).  The SCO Inc.
    
    Regards,
    Mark
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2228.1SUBWAY::BRIGGSHave datascope, will travel.Thu Nov 19 1992 16:462
    
    How is the ranking determined, he asked cynically.
2228.2Peacocks with Ostrich brainsFORTSC::CHABANPray for Peter Pumpkinhead!Thu Nov 19 1992 16:588
    
    Hey who cares?  The UNIX market is tiny compared to Windows.  We're
    gonna rule the world 'cuz Dave Cutler works for Microsoft ;-)
    
    Gotta go "leverage" those opportunities...
    
    -Ed
2228.3UNIX RevenueMRKTNG::SILVERBERGMark Silverberg DTN 264-2269 TTB1-5/B3Fri Nov 20 1992 09:335
    Rankings are based on projected 1992 UNIX-based revenue provided by the
    vendors and analysts.
    
    Mark
2228.4Did that smiley face imply irony or optimism?AUSTIN::UNLANDSic Biscuitus DisintegratumFri Nov 20 1992 13:4112
    re: .2
    
    > We're gonna rule the world 'cuz Dave Cutler works for Microsoft ;-)
    
    I fail to see the connection.  Is there some evidence that Cutler
    holds any enduring loyalty towards Digital?  Even if he does, he
    works for two most hardball, bottom-line managers in the industry.
    If they do anything that benefits Digital, it's only incidental to
    their goals of making Microsoft the dominant force in computers.
    
    Geoff
2228.5$$ incentiveMAIL::LANGSTONNotes @night...mostlyFri Nov 20 1992 13:581
    Cutler owns 90,000 shares of DEC stock at an average cost of $65 1/4
2228.6The Cutler "Cult"FORTSC::CHABANPray for Peter Pumpkinhead!Fri Nov 20 1992 14:2912
    
    I was being ironic.  In spite of Cutler's shares I don't think the fact
    NT resembles VMS or any other DECnocentric view of NT makes any
    difference.  It has, however, given the UNIX-haters another reason
    to continue neglecting an operating system that, more than Windows,
    has eaten into our VMS installed base.
    
    my $.02
    
    -Ed
2228.7CSOADM::ROTHFrom little acorns mighty oaks grow.Fri Nov 20 1992 17:387
Hey, isn't 1992 'the year of Unix'?



How many different years in the 80's did we hear that touted?

Lee
2228.8FORTSC::CHABANPray for Peter Pumpkinhead!Fri Nov 20 1992 17:586
    
    Hey, here in Silicon Valley the last 10 years have been the decade of
    UNIX.
    
    -Ed
2228.9NASZKO::ROBERTFri Nov 20 1992 18:445
>    Cutler owns 90,000 shares of DEC stock at an average cost of $65 1/4

Dave is smart enough to know that what they cost is irrelevant.

- g