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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!cloudbreak.rs.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news.unisource.nl!wwwserv1.shell.nl!news From: "Terje A. Bergesen" <no.email@to.me.please> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 08:47:36 +0100 Organization: NSEP Lines: 36 Message-ID: <32FADE18.3FAF@to.me.please> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <E50rGo.K3n@nonexistent.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> Reply-To: no.email@to.me.please NNTP-Posting-Host: gate.shell.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156470 comp.os.linux.networking:67435 comp.os.linux.setup:95735 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5891 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2297 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52020 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265990 bill davidsen wrote: > > In article <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote: > > | What would make Unix' future? Scott MacNeily can whine about Microsoft > | desktops wasting monumental amounts of admin time and energy if he > | likes, but unix will die without applications. > > UNIX doesn't have applications. You look for one product from one > vendor to use UNIX, you have a large choice with MS. You don't > (sanely) buy an o/s and then look for apps in the business world, > you find the app and then buy the o/s, and then buy the hardware. > You look for the platform which gives you the apps, and stay with > it. Its name is MicroSoft, unfortunately. It is sad to see how desktop/WinTel focused many people are. The statement above is just plain wrong. 80% (or thereabouts) of all the revenue in software development is inhouse/vertical marked apps. The last 20% is reserved for minor players as Microsoft et al :-). A lof of the serious software development is done on UNIX, but even more on AS/400 and MVS. The two systems that aledgedly(sp?) holds about 70% of the worlds corporate data. Yes, you are more or less right. Business do choose app, OS, hardware. But only for the business critical apps. Word processing is usually not business critical. _______________________________________________________________________ --- Terje Bergesen - I speak only for me, not for my employer. --- --- Email adress can be decuted from: t.bergesen at shell.no