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- From: harley@engrhub.ucsb.edu (Harley Hahn)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: IS UNIX DEAD (21)?
- Message-ID: <7176@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 18:47:26 GMT
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- This is number 21 in a series of 22 responses to the question:
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- What do you think about the Byte magazine cover that asked:
- IS UNIX DEAD?
-
- (moderated by Harley Hahn)
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- From: dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith)
- Autodesk, Sausalito, CA
-
- I think it's heading that way, but "not yet". Most of the
- problem seems to be endless bickering among the different vendors
- of OS's and GUI's. I've been around Unix for 10 years, and am
- starting to feel like that's enough, waiting for it to really get
- its act together. I'm going to slant my future learning efforts
- towards NT.
-
- C'mon guys, the Unix pie isn't that big to support so much
- in-fighting. At the moment, it looks like a slice of lemon,
- cherry, blueberry... Think of this: if just 10% of
- approximately 100 million DOS users switch to NT in the next
- three years, that's what, a bigger slice than any of the existing
- Unix vendors? any two or three of them put together?
-
- Cooperate, don't Litigate.
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