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UNIX bashing?
>
> I don't mean to toss gasoline onto this fire, but......
>
Too late...
> Unix as we know has a vanishingly small probability of ever becoming
> 'mainstream'. There's a two-orders-of-magnitude gap between the installed
> base of Dos/Windows and that of Unix. That gap has grown, not marrowed
> over time. This is however no reflection on the obvious technical merits
> of Unix. Market dominance is based not on technical superiority, but
> rather on technical sufficiency. Once an OS acheives technical
> sufficiency any further technical improvements will have a diminishing
> marginal effect on that OS's market performance. Once the OS is
> technically sufficient, non-technical factors begin to dominate. The
> market failure of WinNT is a classic example of this. Its failure is
> unrelated to its technical merits (or lack thereof), but rather on
> econmic and social factors the even a company withe the marketing muscle
> of MicroSoft has not yet been able to overcome. (OS/2 is of course an
> example of an even more dismal, perhaps terminal, failure for many of the
> same reasons.)
>
UNIX is a _networking_ OS, in my mind, above and beyond anything else
which the 'mainstream' may desire.
If I want Excel, Word or Powerpoint, I'll use my PC (which is completely
compatible, via PPP, and able to exchange data) to work within these
obviously proprietary formats. :-)
Microsoft hasn't really made any attempt to enbrace the UNIX community.
Why should we emmrace Microsoft?
- paul
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