Re: www.microsoft.com sure needs a lot of silicon

On Wed, 7 May 1997, R!ch wrote:

> On Wed, 7 May 1997, REX BALLARD wrote:
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> A lot of nice reasoning snipped, for brevity. I must contest this, howver:
>
> > Finally, Sun alienated the rest of the Unix Consortium, creating rival
> > OSF/1 and encouraging customers to "hold out" for OSF/1. By the time
> > OSF/1 arrived (1992), Microsoft was announcing that Windows NT, a "better
>
> Actually, it was DEC and friends that created the OSF, in response to
> Sun and AT & T joining forces (for SVR4 I believe). Although some nice
> technologies emerged, I think the split was a big mistake.

This was unclear. What I meant to say was that SUN so overplayed their hand, claiming that SPArc would be the ONLY blessed AT&T architecture, that their competitors formed OSF. The UI and OSF conflict gave Mr Gates the time to complete NT and perpetuate Windows for almost 6 years without a major UNIX competitor.

> I just wish that all the UNIX vendors would stop the infighting (for the
> timebeing, anyway!), and unite against the common enemy: Micro$oft.
> Hopefully, Java will provide the tool to do this...

It is very likely that the combination of Java and Linux will cut deeply into the traditional MS-Windows Markets. Java will lure existing users out of the traditional Microsoft Only environments, NC will generate a market for "Low End an dEntry Level" users, Linux will support the middle range and low end server market. Unix will then have a base of support in the Sun, AIX, SGI, and HP environments.

Linux, particularly Red Hat, has set a new standard in user friendly configuration. The existing UNIX community will want to compete at that level (Imagine a "Plug & Play Solaris").

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Received on Wed May 07 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT