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- From: shane@cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough)
- Subject: Re: It's Time for a Shakedown (was Re: A few answers to Dell Unix FAQ)
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:07:52 GMT
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- Evan Leibovitch (evan@telly.on.ca) wrote:
-
- : Which R4 company will be *the* one? Who cares anymore? Let's just get on
- : with the issue, which is making UNIX better and more popular. The current
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- : obstacle course of implementors working in self-imposed vacuums, only
- : detracts from this goal.
-
- Although the analogy is unfair, the Novell/USL situation reminds me of a
- a movie I saw recently. An young director wanted to make a quality movie,
- but the only people he could get to finance it were rich business men
- who just wanted their talentless girlfriends to be the star.
-
- I'm afraid of Novell making its girlfriend, NetWare, the star of the show
- at the expense of UNIX technology. The money-men in the movie insisted on
- plot changes to suit their mate's idea of an ideal leading role. So too,
- I fear what Novell may do to UNIX to promote its star child.
-
- I think we may see "making UNIX better and more popular" transformed
- into "using UNIX to make NETWARE better and more popular".
-
- BTW, I in no way wish to imply NetWare is 'talentless' (I said the analogy
- was weak!), it's just not UNIX, and it has a rich boyfriend.
-
- : We've had our nice little experiment of all these nice little companies
- : selling UNIX. This hasn't worked. Time to let some big boys play.
-
- Considering the UL/OSF battles, I don't think the big boys have anything
- over the little guys :-)!
-
- : Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- : evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
-
- -Shane
-
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