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From: David Masterson <davidm@prism.kla.com>
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: 07 Feb 1997 09:59:38 -0800
Organization: KLA Instruments
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>>>>> "Kaleb" == Kaleb S KEITHLEY <kaleb@osf.org> writes:
> bill davidsen wrote:
>> With Windows you have a choice of similar apps from multiple vendors, while
>> with UNIX you typically have a choice between zero and one which will
>> really address the problem, and maybe a few more which could be used to do
>> the job in some fashion.
> Who cares? You completely miss the point of application development on Unix
> if all you want is word processors for your Linux system. The vast majority
> of Unix applications are for vertical markets. Look at all the apps GE uses
> in-house to build nuclear missles!
You're making Bill's point for him. It is far easier for a mass-market OS to
move into the vertical markets than it is for a specialized OS to move out to
the mass markets. The reason is product identification -- no one in the mass
market will recognize the value of a UNIX word processor over MS-Word, but the
vertical market people will recognize the value of a vertical market product
that works well on a mass-market OS.
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