Gavin wrote:
> Getting back to this week's Computerworld, I found Lew Platt's comment
> on p.16 with respect to the future of Unix vs. NT intersting. he is quoted
> as saying: "Unix is certainly going to take me through my retirement".
>
> Later in the same issue (p.44) there is an article talking about porting
> posix applications to NT, and how easy it is. The product that they happen
> to focus on is an interesting one: Maestro for NT from Unison Software.
 
I forget where I read the stat, but based on sales records for the 1st
half of 1995, Microsoft will ship as many copies of NT Server as all
comercial versions of UNIX combined.
 
This says something very interesting about market dynamics and corporate
loyalty to UNIX.  Contrasted with the porting article mentioned above, it
also says something about how truely open systems will begin to compete.
With Microsofts marketing power, and the inherent virtue of buying an
operating system from one vendor (regardless of who's hardware it runs
on), I can see where UNIX for the small server market may soon be a
dim memory.  On the high end, with eveyone from MPE to MVS implementing
POSIX interfaces, I anticipate a situation where significant continued
growth in the high end server market place will stop.
 
Not UNIX bashing, just watching the trends.
 
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