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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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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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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