NT set to rule by 2000 - Unix to become niche, analysts predict

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Wolfpack clusters will dominate the market for high-end enterprisesystems over the next five years and squash the presence of Unix-basedsystems into specialist niche markets. A survey of 90 European ITconsultants and analysts revealed that 85% of them believe clustered NTservers would triumph, and 64% of them feel Unix would eventually be usedfor specialist applications, writes Robert Juman Blincoe.

Paul Davey, European NT marketing director at Tandem, which commissioned the survey, said Wolfpack's predicted dominance wasn't a surprise, but the speed at which analysts thought it would happen a...

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