It just depends who your targeting. The 1% "other" category or everybody else. It's not about which is better, but which is actually being used. I remember drooling over an Atari 800 with a whopping 8k of RAM (expandable to 16k if you had the extra $400.)with a casette deck for a drive, but couldn't afford it. Same story with the first Mac's. Ended up going the clone route like everybody else. Even Amiga's looked nice, but just didn't have the status quo. When was the last time you walked into a computer shop and saw folks bying Amigas and Ataris? Or more importantly, software for them? Gotta go with the status quo. That is, if your in the business of selling your scripts. If not, then who cares. Put it on EPOC32... whatever the hell that is. T Brownell --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > Below are some old OS market share stats (no doubt > > Unix flavours have grown). It's clear the > Microsoft > > has the monopoly on OS's. An interesting point.. > > apparently DOS has a greater market share than > Linux > > and Unix combined (although this may have changed > as > > well) and yet there is no Rebol/DOS platform? > > Oh yes lets bring REBOL to good 'ol Q-DOS - best OS > ever made. > (Men I never heard such a trash) > > > > Market share of OS's as of July 1999 > > > > Windows Flavours 90.5 % > > Mac 5 % > > Unix Flavours 2.9 % > > > > Total percentage of these OS flavours - 98.4 % > > Total percentage of all other platforms - 1.6 % > > Sponsored by whom? > > > 3 Platforms... Win 95, Win 98 and NT account for > 85.6 > > % of the market. > > Thats 3 Platforms??? Where's the difference between > win95 and win98? > > > > > Source CNET(July 1999): > > > http://www.canada.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-345114.html > > > > Any current OS stats kicking around? > > Sure look at www.microsoft.com they certainly have > what you search. > > > > > Also to note a recent quote regarding Windows ME > sales > > from CNET... > > "September 20, 2000, 4:00 p.m. PT > > REDMOND, Wash.--Microsoft sold 250,000 copies of > its > > new Windows operating system for consumers in U.S. > > stores during the first four days since it was > > released Thursday, according to a report issued by > > research firm PC Data. > > > > That put it on track to sell more then 400,000 > units > > in its first month and more than 1 million units > at > > retail stores before the end of the year." > > This the good old standard Ad of Microsoft that is > published > to push sales. > > > > > Source > > > http://www.canada.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2825900.html?tag=st.ne.1002.srch > >res.ni > > > > Rather than getting into the whole "Microsoft > Sucks" > > debate which, from a marketing point of view, is > > irrelevant, suffice to say that I only see 3 > > platforms, and at the most, 5 or 6. > > I don't know what you thought you will hear saying > such nonsense? > If the only 3 Platforms that count for you are > Win95,98,NT > Why not learning Visual Basic to be really portable > between this whole > range of OSs. > > > The phrase "and it operates on over 40 > platforms!!!" > > is often heard coming out of my mouth... at least > when > > clients are around. :) > > Bullshit! You seem to come from marketing. > I for my part work in environments with more OSs > > - Linux x86, Alpha > - Tru64, Alpha > - HP-UX > - MacOS > - PalmOS > - EPOC32 > - Win9x,NT > > In reality you cannot force your clients to use your > "3 Platforms" > There are much more OSs around and so much more > possibilities in future. > > The MS-Windows x86 liga was the only factor that > hindered the rise of > more modern network-oriented crossplatform > appliances. > The "one fits all" Philosophy of Microsoft is fault > that we have lost > years and years of internet-evolution. > > We _need_ different machines and we _need_ different > OSs. > I dont' want to transport my furniture in a Porsche > 911 and I do not want > to travel by car if I had to do it in a truck! The > army don't use Boeing 777 > as Fighters and travellers don't fly in F16s in > holidays. > > My words could be a little bit harsh - the please > sorry - but something > must happen with those dumb marketing guys that they > realize the reality!!! > > If you work in an MS environment - its your thing > But don't force me and the many others that follow > another way to > concentrate on using inferior technology. > > Regards > Jochen Schmidt > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
