Bob Miller’s computing world is divided into three continents first there’s the $70,000m personal computer market that in his estimation is growing at 9% a year; second the client-server (Unix) sector, growing at 20%; third the mini-mainframe market that is shrinking 9% a year: client-server is the real battleground of the future, he believes – if you are going to try to shift units of CPUs in the personal computer sector, you must have Microsoft’s support; the client-server battleground is open to all-comers because it is going to be quite a while before anyone is going to run their business on NT, and certainly it will be a long time before NT has a significant share of the client-server sector; the only difference between the growth curves of Microsoft and Unix when they are put next to each other is a binary standard, says Miller; he’s still awaiting the day when the Unix firms will wake up and create a binary standard, and is bitter that those that had the chance to do it didn’t go for it at the time – that is in the past, but they know who they are.
