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	Rex Ballard - Director of Electronic Distribution
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On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Bryan Seigneur wrote:

> Arun Gupta wrote:
> > @elarson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu       wrote:
> > > "Steven C. Den Beste"  writes:
> > >>> The respected research organization DATAPRO has announced that UNIX
> > >>> purchases will increase 8% through the year 2000 while NT purchases
> > >>> decline over the same period.
> > >>> Read all about it at http://www.pcweek.com/news/0701/01eunix.html
> > >>> This is the death knell for NT !!!

This might be be like the reports of Mr. Twain's demise, a bit premature.

> > >>"The report was based on Datapro's annual user survey,
> > >>which this year queried 1,318 Unix users worldwide."
> > >>Doesn't it strike you as a slightly biased crowd?
> > >=========

It does give an indication of how one group views unix.  Many sites use
unix as servers and use Windows 3.1 as workstations.  Given the choice
between continuing to have to support two rule-sets and being able to
choose a single operating system for Client and Server, they may choose to
go "All Unix".  With Linux, SCO, UniWare, and Solaris all in the game,
it's harder to dismiss Unix on the PC.

> > >Well, considering that the Unix crowd is a "target group" for NT
> > >adoption, it is reasonable.  This survey basically says that NT is
> > >not going to displace Unix.
> > 
> > However, NT will probably replace a whole lot of Windows 95 :-)

Actually, Microsoft has already announce NT 4.0 which is supposed to be
"The best of 95 and NT".

Of course, the logical question is; "Why cant he just reverse engineer a
Linux kernel and use that?".  Unfortunately, when Bill Gates sold the
rights to Xenix to SCO in order to raise money to complete Windows, he
promised not to enter the Unix Market again.  He had a 25% stake in SCO,
but Sun, HP, and IBM all got pieces of the action.  Now Microsoft is
"Locked out" of the Unix Operating System market.  The ONLY way he could
compete in the marketplace, is if Linux becomes the "DeFacto" verions, but
then Microsoft loses the monopoly advantage.

> > -arun gupta
> 
> NT on home machines:
> --------------------
> PC seller T. Supp.:
> "Hello,  Customer Support."
> Customer:
> "Yeah, why the hell is my PPro 200 so much slower than my old P-75!?!"

That's enough horsepower to support about 200 users.  Think you got enough
dynamite there butch?  It oughtta make a great VRML engine though.


	Rex



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