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- From: pjm@cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
- Subject: What has AT&T to lose? Plenty!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.012046.18604@cshl.org>
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- Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 01:20:46 GMT
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- The BSDI product couldn't have come at a worse time.
- The UNIX War may be coming to the same end as the Cold War --
- with barely a shot being fired. I've been hearing stories
- that OSF won't be able to compete with the new UNIX from ATT/Sun.
- So here's this huge war machine that AT&T is starting to feel
- confident won't have to be used against the OSF Pact forces
- and, lo and behold, here comes BSDI (Sounds of AT&T aiming and FIRE!).
- On top of that, people DON'T believe Microsoft's hype about NT,
- Apple is making home appliances, and DEC is hemorrhaging
- (have you seen their last few 4th quarter reports, what can
- we expect from 4Q92? ... VMS appears extremely vulnerable ).
- So AT&T can win big and after the unification efforts of the last few
- years wont allow a UNIX variant to prosper.
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- --
- -- Pat Monardo What is the cause, what the reason
- -- pjm@cshl.org for the manifestation of a smile?
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