Re: www.microsoft.com sure needs a lot of silicon

On Wed, 7 May 1997, REX BALLARD wrote:

A lot of nice reasoning snipped, for brevity. I must contest this, howver:

> Finally, Sun alienated the rest of the Unix Consortium, creating rival
> OSF/1 and encouraging customers to "hold out" for OSF/1. By the time
> OSF/1 arrived (1992), Microsoft was announcing that Windows NT, a "better

Actually, it was DEC and friends that created the OSF, in response to Sun and AT & T joining forces (for SVR4 I believe). Although some nice technologies emerged, I think the split was a big mistake.

I just wish that all the UNIX vendors would stop the infighting (for the timebeing, anyway!), and unite against the common enemy: Micro$oft. Hopefully, Java will provide the tool to do this...

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