A new report from London-based analyst Ovum Ltd estimates that the commercial Unix market in Europe will grow at an average rate of 25% to be worth $11,200m by 1995, up from $3,600m this year. Germany will continue to be the largest European market for Unix, followed by France, the UK and Italy. Ovum reckons the fastest-growing sector is the high-end – systems costing over $200,000 – presently dominated by multi-processing systems from the likes of Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Pyramid Technology Inc as well as Hewlett-Packard Co, but it expects the likes of IBM to weigh in with their own multi-processing systems over the next few years. Unix in Europe: Commercial Users and Markets is available now, priced at UKP600, or $1,200.
