Conference 7.286::digital

                           *** EASYNET CENSUS ***

                   Countries connected by EASYnet      52
                   Active sites connected by EASYnet  466
                   Total subnets                     1317
                   Total DECnet areas                 308

        +------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
        | Fiscal Month     |  Apr 94 |  May 94 |  Jun 94 |  Jul 94 |
        +--------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
        | DECnet Stacks (1)|  93,146 |  94,501 |  95,241 |  95,721 |
        | IP Stacks (2)    |  40,689 |  44,601 |  44,888 |  48,584 |
        | Computers (3)    | 103,318 | 105,651 | 106,463 | 107,867 |
        +-------+----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+

        (1) DECnet stacks from DNRS Registrations
        (2) IP Stacks from named IP hosts
        (3) Computers = 100% DECnet + 25% IP

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RE: .1

Interesting.  There are more computers working for Digital than 
people.

--PSW

    Not suprising - I've got 8 on Easynet at home......
    
    ALan

      That number is probably the sum of all registered non-hidden and 
      hidden nodes.  That would include printservers and other devices 
      that we don't normally think of as "computers."

      Terry

    	In some environments it is normal to have slightly more computers
    than people. Where I work, most people have a workstation of some sort,
    plus a share of a host cluster, plus a share of print servers,
    dedicated routers... In a demonstration/benchmark centre you would have
    all of the above, plus perhaps another 30 or 40 machines that could
    only be used by booking them for a particular benchmark or
    demonstration. On a factory production floor you would have computers
    that would be networked for purposes of monitoring and stock control
    and similar, but the number of them would be quite unrelated to the
    number of people working there.
    
    	It just shows we are using what we sell. If you use a computer then
    it will reduce your costs.

    
    	Well, I have a VAXstation 3100/76 SPX on my desk which I use for
    nearly everything, and a DECpc 450D2LP (if that means anything to
    anyone?) for the POINT system which I could use for terminal emulations
    as well if it wasn't so unfriendly compared with the VAXstation.
    
    	Each of my fellow (DECdirect) Tech. Supporters have or soon will
    have a similar setup.  So that boosts the numbers a little.
    
    				Malcolm.

re .0

  Well, the question is how one (HP) defines what is "largets email" network
  in the world. May be HP defines it as most number of email messages sent
  and not the largest number of computers connected to the network. I
  remember reading somewhere that HP was way ahead of Digital in terms of
  number of articles posted on USENET.

Avinash

Re: .7

You couldn't prove it by me for the non-vendor-specific newsgroups I read.

				Steve

    maybe they are telling porkies - hoping that no-one catches them out
    
    Alan

    
    Remember, HP is a much bigger COMPANY than DEC, with business lines
    outside of just computers (something like $22B revenue).
    
    So if they've deployed a company wide E-mail system that touches almost
    all employees it would be bigger than ours based solely on the # of
    users. 
    
    I'd strongly suspect though that AT&T has a bigger e-mail population
    than DEC and HP combined though. 
    
    

RE more computers than people: that's client/server at work 
for you. We are all brain servers to the computers, and
have the capacity to serve multiple clients at once. Maybe
we should sell it: DECbrainserver for VMS, WNT, MSWIN, Unix and
OSF.

>>> We are all brain servers...

Speak for yourself, buddy. Some of us are drivel servers :-)

--RS

    re .2
    >> Interesting.  There are more computers working for Digital than
    people.
    Don't you mean 'switched on' rather than working?     

    re:.13
    
    probably a better word for both would be 'extant'.

    re: .13, .14
    
    Good point.  There must be two dozen systems sitting in the empty
    offices around here, switched on and waiting to receive mail that no
    one would read.
    
    --bonnie
    

    Which company has more employees?

    I think AT&T then HP then Digital.  But that doesn't answer the
    question; otherwise IBM would be above all three.  Not ever company
    gives nearly all it's people email access.
    
    -Bruce

    Fair enough, Bruce.  But you have to admit the possibility that 
    they now have a larger network.