rsk@pur-ee.UUCP (Darth Wombat) (02/14/84)
Quoting from the article on p. 14 by Patricia O'Keefe:
"...it appears that the 15-year-old operating system developed
by Bell Laboratories will, by default, become the standard for
microcomputer-based multiuser, multitasking and/or networked
environments."
Good grief, the DP community has *finally* noticed!
Quoting further, from Robert Fertig, president of Enterprise Information
Systems, Inc.:
"IBM is looking at the situation and realizes that it can't stop
Unix from moving forward, but it can enlarge on Unix, providing
features to entice users over a one-way bridge to IBM systems."
Such as rewriting the kernel in Cobol, perhaps?
One more quote, from Kenneth Lim, a research analyst with Dataquest, Inc:
"Unix has no importance in the micro market", primarily because
the powerful and sophisticated system has yet to prove itself
in the business environment.
Gee, somebody better tell Sun and Masscomp and Pyramid and Callan and Pixel
and everybody else in the *nix business about this right away!
--Unix, is, of course, a trademark of Ma Bell.
--
"Go ahead...make my day."
Darth Wombat
ARPA: rsk@purdue
UUCP: { allegra, decvax, ihnp4, harpo, seismo, teklabs, ucbvax } !pur-ee!rskguy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) (02/17/84)
> One more quote, from Kenneth Lim, a research analyst with Dataquest, Inc: > "Unix has no importance in the micro market", primarily because > the powerful and sophisticated system has yet to prove itself > in the business environment. > Gee, somebody better tell Sun and Masscomp and Pyramid and Callan and Pixel > and everybody else in the *nix business about this right away! Well, to be fair, by "business environment" he probably means the great unwashed masses of COBOL jockeys, or the people who build the computers whose terminals sit at hotel reservation desks, etc.. On the other hand, I don't know how well CP/M or MS-DOS has proved itself in that business environment, either. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy
grw@inmet.UUCP (02/18/84)
#R:pur-ee:-158300:inmet:5800042:000:319 inmet!grw Feb 17 12:17:00 1984 There is nothing wrong with letting enthusiasm get the upper hand once in a while...however be realistic; dollar wise Unix almost doesn't exist in the business computer market. It's fine to say that someday it will be a major factor in the commercial end user market, but for now the guy from Dataquest has a point.