klimas@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (02/21/91)
In article <1991Feb19.174709.3381@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, jwohl@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl) writes: > In article <1991Feb18.194514.7586@athena.mit.edu> mondomon@athena.mit.edu (Allan S. MacKinnon Jr.) writes: >>Does anyone have some stats on how many active OS/2 users there are? >>And how does this compare to Windows 3.0? 1:4? 1:5? > > 300,000 (or so) as of middle of '90 (this from IBM Developer's journal). > They said then that they wanted a million or a million more (I'm not sure > which) users for '91. Back around the end of summer 90, I read a trade rag that quoted Bill Gates saying they had sold about 500,000 copies of OS/2. There have been some verbal comments made to me recently indicating 800,000 but I haven't tracked it down to a source yet. How about an official figure?
jwohl@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl) (02/22/91)
In article <3350.27c299ee@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> klimas@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: >In article <1991Feb19.174709.3381@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, jwohl@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl) writes: >> In article <1991Feb18.194514.7586@athena.mit.edu> mondomon@athena.mit.edu (Allan S. MacKinnon Jr.) writes: >>>Does anyone have some stats on how many active OS/2 users there are? >>>And how does this compare to Windows 3.0? 1:4? 1:5? >> >> 300,000 (or so) as of middle of '90 (this from IBM Developer's journal). >> They said then that they wanted a million or a million more (I'm not sure >> which) users for '91. > Back around the end of summer 90, I read a trade rag that quoted > Bill Gates saying they had sold about 500,000 copies of OS/2. There > have been some verbal comments made to me recently indicating 800,000 > but I haven't tracked it down to a source yet. How about an official > figure? Hmm..That would be interesting if 2/3 as many copies as IBM were sold by other manufacturers. -- Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / jwohl@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu