jfp@mck-csc.UUCP (John Pries) (09/29/88)
I'm on a quest to find large organizations that might have applications running in production under UNIX. I am not looking for the mom and pop stores or other cottage type companies. Instead I am looking for companies with 100's of millions of dollars in annual sales that have substantial investments in Unix based applications and hardware platforms. I expect the majority of these would be in the category of "cloned applications"; identical platforms running in each store, hotel, plant, etc., but by no means am I limiting my search to that type. I an not restricting my search to any particular flavor of Unix or brand of hardware, I'm trying to track down where some of the more than 1 $billion/year of Unix platform sales into the commercial marketplace is going. By commercial applications, I mean to include such mundane stuff as: - A/R, A/P, G/L - Order Entry - Point of Sale - Shop floor automation - Inventory Control and mean to exclude: - System Development - CAD Please email any responses, and will email any results upon completion to any requesters, (subject to the usual net penalties). Thanx. John Pries McKinsey & Co. ..!mit-eddie!mck-csc!jfp