Funny
that.
UNIX has been going
to “succumb” any day now ever since 1970.
NT was introduced
specifically to try to take the UNIX niche but failed in that attempt (however
it did succeed in taking over Novell’s fileserver niche). NT and
subsequent Windoze flavors failed because they are simply not scalable
enough.
Interestingly the
UNIX Clone, Linux, is taking market share away from Windoze both in the
desktop and the server arenas to the point that Dell is selling laptops with
Ubuntu now and has been selling servers with RedHat for quite a
while.
Using what were
judged to be monopolistic practices by the EU courts and were on there way to
being done so by US courts before W killed the DOJ anti-trust action doesn’t
mean you were adopted due to superior technology but rather due to
unscrupulous business practices.
The great thing about
UNIX/Linux is that it does offer choice. SCO UNIX by the way was a good
OS. What killed it was a combination of free Linux and FreeBSD in the
niche they were in along with poor business practices. It had nothing to
do with Windows as most of its life was AFTER Windows was already
available.
Now lets talk about
Vista which seems to be flying as high as your average lead balloon – so much
so that MicroSloth is actually starting to talk about “extending” the life of
XP.
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup
Manual Backup - can't see restore
Good - so when all
the paltry "UNIX" distributions finally succumb to the mighty Windows there
won't be any debate over what name to put on the tombstone.
Windows has market share, which is far more important than any
standard. If you think a recognized standard or some other piece of
paper is going to keep you in business then you had better go talk to
SCO. In the mean time, I'd keep selling solutions to people's
problems. =P
-Jonathan
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
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To: Curtis
Preston
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Manual Backup - can't see restore
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Curtis Preston <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com>
wrote:
After all these years, it still cracks me up that
NetBackup calls Unix
"Standard," which makes Windows and all other
platforms, "non-standard."
So what's your point? :-)
Unix is a
multi-vendor standard recognized by both ISO and IEEE. Windows is not a
standard from any standards body that I'm aware of. Even its trademark
is disputed in legal circles.
.../Ed
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