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Xref: sserve comp.unix.solaris:561 comp.unix.bsd:8056 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!auspex-gw!guy From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T) Message-ID: <15515@auspex-gw.auspex.com> Date: 16 Nov 92 22:35:05 GMT References: <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov15.014513.28154@nobeltech.se> <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com Followup-To: comp.unix.solaris Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: bootme.auspex.com >If Sun stuck to SYSV they would steadily lose their market share >leadership. Software vendors would start writing to other (SYSV based) >vendors first and Sun second which would cost them more market >share...and so on. And eventually, instead of catching flack for >changing to SYSV they would be catching flack (like they do with Open >Look) for pushing their own way instead of following the industry. Presumably your first sentence was intended to be "If Sun stuck to BSD"....