A survey of 1,168 users in Japan, conducted by Nikkei DataPro and reported in the Nikkei Industrial Weekly, indicated that 214 companies or 18.3% of the survey had already taken measures to downsize their computer facilitues. Another 665 users or 56.9% of the sample were considering doing so, while 23.7% were not considering doing so. Of the companies that had already downsized, 72.9% were mainframe users; 39% of those who had downsized had moved from a mainframe to Unix workstations, 13% had moved from a mainframe to an office computer, 12.6% from a mainframe to personal computers, 6.1% from an office computer small business computer – to personal computers.
