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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:8736 comp.unix.solaris:710 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!auspex-gw!guy From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T) Message-ID: <15780@auspex-gw.auspex.com> Date: 5 Dec 92 19:43:20 GMT References: <id.U_0V.SJ3@ferranti.com> <22947@venera.isi.edu> <9211260100.43@rmkhome.UUCP> Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 61 Nntp-Posting-Host: auspex.auspex.com >And NT will mostly be marketed as a server for Intel boxes running >Windows 3.x apps. Hmm. Somebody from Microsoft appears to disagree with you; he claims it's mainly intended as a *desktop* OS, at least at this point, not a *server* OS: From: brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Tidbits 12/04/92 Message-ID: <1992Dec4.225522.15521@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: 4 Dec 92 22:55:22 GMT Organization: University of Utah CS Dept .... -------------- [Open Systems Today; November 23, 1992; Page 1,54] [ Remember that Open Systems Today is a Unix Trade Rag. The two articles below were under the banner: CORONATION OF SORTS FOR NT ] Unix Still Looks Best To Those Needing Powerful Network Server By Paul Kapustka LAS VEGAS--Though Microsoft's Windows NT and IBM's OS/2 2.0 enjoyed visible ISV support at last week's Comdex show, there was little suggestion that either is a suitable that either is a suitable platform for mission- critical network server applications. Microsoft's bustling third-party booth area housed some unexpected supporters for its forthcoming Windows NT operating system, including Sun Microsystems, whose SunSelect subsidiary showed a demonstration of PC-NFS running on NT. But the bulk of the exhibitors were showing planned ports of personal productivity applications. IBM's conference-room showcase of ISV support for OS/2 2.0, similar in tone to Microsoft's but with a smaller number of participating vendors, was similarly lacking in network server applications, except for a demonstration of a relation database server from Oracle Corp. Oracle was also in the Microsoft booth, showing a planned NT-based version of its Oracle 7 server software. So even as Windows NT and OS/2 2.0 seem prepared to earn a significant share of space on the desktop, neither the developers nor even Microsoft and IBM see the two operating systems replacing Unix anytime soon as a back-end platform for networked, mission-critical applications. .... Cameron Myhrvold, director of developer relations for Microsoft's Systems Software division, said NT isn't meant to usurp Unix's place in the server application world. Instead, he said, its aim is to bring networking into corporations from the bottom up, beginning at the individual user desktop. "We're not trying to kill Unix," Myhrvold said. "Instead, we want [Windows NT] to be a hi-end complement to Windows. The idea is to bring applications to NT that have never been on PCs before."