Re: Should there only be 1 OS, or multiple?

From: John Thompson <jhthomp_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:58:39 -0600
Message-ID: <11d63ad10811261058q649ca489n5610350f362d4ec0@mail.gmail.com>


To me, all those unix flavors are different OS's. May as well be becuase the add-on's hamper ease of integration which is the whole point.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Goulet, Richard < Richard.Goulet_at_parexel.com> wrote:

> John,
>
> There is only one OS of any real consequence, Unix. Sure there are a
> pile of different flavors from HP, IBM, Linux, Sun, etc....., but at the
> core their all the same. Windows is one of those sideshows that just
> doesn't seem to understand how irrelevant it is.
>
>
> *Dick Goulet***
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