“…but at whose expense? Different market numbers tell
different stories.”
“… dollar figures and number of clients per installation data
show it’s not a simple case of NT goes up and every other operating
system goes down…”
“… In 1998, Unix comprised the lion’s share of the $5 billion
server operating environment market, with 57.3 percent. NT had 27.7
percent of the 1998 server OS market in dollars, while NetWare
captured 12.9 percent…”
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