Ken writes:

> BM and Microsoft will survive, other than those, there is only Unix.
>  (And IBM is consolidating to OS/390, OS/400, and Unix, discouraging new
>  users on VM/CMS, VSE, OS/2 and anything else that may still linger.)
>
>  The same consolidation is happening in the Unix market.  Only 4 proprietary
>  Unix variants are still viable--HP, Sun, IBM, DEC/Compaq.  And I think
>  DEC/Compaq's proprietary Unix may not have long left.  Other computer
makers
>  are either adopting one of these Unixes or another "standard" unix, going
to
>  a niche strategy, or disappearing.  SCO has collapsed.

Given your general thesis, why would you expect Unix to survive -- in any
variant? It is after all only another dialect of Linux, and why would anyone
pay for something they could get for free?

Wirt Atmar