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[David Hamm]

I would suspect not.  As much as I like Linux I don't think most other sys      
admins would spend the time to learn how to use it.  NT is a great solution if 
what you need to do is pretty generic ( i.e. share disks and printers ).  And NT
is also the blessed solution right now you cant get fired for buying Microsoft  
products they are a safe bet no matter what.

Later David
      
On 08-Jan-97 STEVEN_DUCHENE at HP-USA-om1.om.hp.com wrote:
>I wonder if some of the declines in sales of RISC system sales mentioned
>in the attached article that is being attributed to increased sales of
>NT/Intel systems is actually due to people running Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD
>on Intel systems?
>
>                                       Steve
>
>.......................................................................
>
>RISC system sales top $50 billion in 1996 - report
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>Date: Wednesday, January 8, 1997
>Source: Reuters
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>CARMEL, California, Reuters via Individual Inc. : Revenues for computer
>systems using reduced instruction set computing (RISC) microprocessors
>and
>the Unix operating system rose by $10 billion to $51.7 billion in 1996, a
>market survey has found.
>
>However, industry analyst Andrew Allison said in his annual survey of the
>industry released on Monday that the rate of growth of RISC systems
>revenues
>slowed significantly to 24 percent compared with more than 40 percent a
>year
>earlier.
>
>Most vendors grew roughly with the market and, Allison said in his
>January
>"Inside the New Computer Industry" report, they had essentially
>maintained
>their market position.
>
>Hewlett-Packard Co's <HWP.N> share of the revenue pie for RISC systems
>slipped fractionally to 29.6 percent from 30.0 percent in 1995, according
>to
>the report, while the Power and PowerPC systems used by International
>Business Machines Corp <IBM.N> and others slipped to 27.5 percent from
>28.3
>percent.
>
>Sun Microsystems Inc's <SUNW.O> SPARC systems gained a half a percentage
>point to 17.0 percent of the RISC systems revenue, according to the
>survey,
>while MIPS systems produced and licensed by Silicon Graphics Inc <SGI.N>
>slid to 15.9 percent from 16.3 percent.
>
>Digital Equipment Corp's <DEC.N> Alpha systems rose nearly 50 percent,
>but
>this reflected its relatively small base of 8.9 percent in 1996 and 6.0
>percent in 1995 and the contribution of its high-end servers, Allison
>said.
>
>Allison said 1997 would be another challenging year, as Microsoft Corp's
><MSFT.O> Windows NT and the Intel Corp <INTC.O> chips which together are
>known as the "Wintel" platform continue to win customers away from RISC
>systems.
>
>The shift is particularly pronounced in the market for workstations --
>high-end desktop computer devices -- as opposed to the powerful computer
>servers, which relay traffic and tasks between whole groups of computer
>users.
>
>Allison estimated RISC/Unix workstation unit shipments to actually
>declined
>by between five and 10 percent last year, with revenue at best flat
>during
>the period.
>
>Industry executives have blamed the sluggish market for traditional
>workstations in part on the launch of a new upgrade of Microsoft's
>Windows
>NT. Allison said the RISC/Unix workstation volume decline will
>"accelerate
>markedly this year" unless vendors match Wintel price and performance.
>
>"... the only obstacle between Wintel and domination of the new technical
>workstation mid-range today, namely application availability, is rapidly
>being whittled away," he said.
>
>--sam.perry at reuters.com, Palo Alto Bureau +1 415 846 5400

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