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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!sgigate.sgi.com!cygnus.com!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: TCP latency Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Message-ID: <DuM489.GxG@kithrup.com> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4s8rtp$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <4sej3e$155@dworkin.wustl.edu> <4seo88$fqd@fido.asd.sgi.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 01:31:21 GMT Lines: 24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45290 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23642 In article <4seo88$fqd@fido.asd.sgi.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote: >If you look at the directions of the computer industry, the Unix market >is shrinking (not in real numbers, in percentage), while the Windows >& Windows/NT market is growing. A recent projection by some magazine (I forget which one, sorry) says that Unix will continue to grow its market share for the next ten years, more rapidly than Windows/NT will grow its market share over the same period of time. This was limited to the server market, I believe. For the individual desktop user, Windows is the way to go, and has been for quite a while. The Mac might still have a chance -- with decent networking, it's an ideal platform for an end-user Web browser application -- but unix isn't even in the running. Not that that means unix will disappear. To some degree, who *cares* if millions of users are using Windows, and not *nix? There will continue to be those who use a unix-like OS, for research, for hacking, to have the same OS on their desktop or laptop as they do on the big server in the office, etc.