NT and Unix Server Siege

Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@gambetta.ICS.uci.edu)
Mon, 17 Nov 1997 08:33:22 -0800


Dear Tom,

http://www.mercurycenter.com/business/ntvsunix111797.htm

NT and UNIX Sales (units)
Year NT UNIX
1995 393k 535k
1996 732k 616k
GROWTH RATE
86% 15%

Your growth figures for NT versus Unix are misleading in
that Unix servers generally scale to more users thus they require
fewer licenses purchased. Add on top of this the number of
64-bit unix licenses versus the number of NT 64-bit licenses
and your numbers just don't mean all that much. Is there any
way you can correct for these confounds?

Greg