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Ben, I once saw a graph of the $ volumn spent on various OS's. That's actually a better gauge of who's using what…since you get about the same number of users per dollar spent. At that point ( a year or two ago) UNIX was behind MS-DOS, but the trend clearly indicated that (presuming things keep going at the then current rates) UNIX would bypass MS-DOS within a few years. Since then, UNIX has accelerated if anything. Contracts such as the Air Force Computer 3 (2 Billion dollars worth) and the Treasury Dept contract (3,500 machines at about $500,000 apiece) didn't hurt either. Looking at a recent ad…Sun claims 9 Billion dollars in sales (total) in 1/2 a million machines. The ad also claims that SunOS alone is the 3rd most popular OS around. Add all the rest of the UNIX boxes sold by other than Sun, and you've got a pretty good idea that UNIX just may end up being the most popular OS available. Don