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- From: uunet!wlbr.eaton.com!etn-rad!jru (John Unekis)
-
- In article <150@longway.TIC.COM>:
- >From: jmb@patton.SGI.COM (Jim Barton)
- >
- >In article <147@longway.TIC.COM>:
- >> From: uunet!wlbr.eaton.com!etn-rad!jru (John Unekis)
- >>
- >> We recently had some SUN reps come to give a presentation about SPARC.
- >> They were strongly suggesting that due to their relationship with AT&T
- >> (that is AT&T will soon sell SPARC) it will soon be the case that if you
- >> are not a SPARC machine you will not *really* be UNIX compatible. They
- >
- >Finally, think about a sales organization that would send their salepeople
- >out with such a story. You are obviously concerned by it, and see the
- .....
- I realized after posting this article that it sounded critical of SUN,
- and might result in some flames in their direction. That was not at all
- my intention. SUN is an excellent company, and thay have always supported
- us well. My question was actually more concerned with the future of UNIX
- as an open standard. Obviously keeping UNIX open is a double edged sword
- for AT&T, they gain great credit as the source of the most widely accepted
- non-hardware dependent OS, but does it really benefit the sales of their
- machines? If AT&T were ever to pick a hardware standard as the basis for
- a product dependent UNIX, the SPARC would be an excellent choice. The
- real question, I suppose, is can an open standard like UNIX really survive
- in today's feircely competitive marketplace?
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- Any opinions expressed above are mine only. {ihnp4 or voder}!wlbr!etn-rad!jru
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- Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 38
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