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Why is everyone comparing whatever operating system with NT?

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>Why is everyone comparing whatever operating system with NT?

Quote:> Why is everyone comparing whatever operating system with NT?

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Quote:> Why is everyone comparing whatever operating system with NT?

For JP, Paramount (?) spent mucho biggo bucks in promoting the damn
thing so everybody and their brother is now salivating over it and
so forth.  News programs are treating it as if it were Serious Stuff.
etc etc.  It's all because of marketing & advertising.

NT is the same.  People are thinking about it and talking about it
and everything simply because Microsoft is spending so much on
marketing and advertising.

And this analogy has run out of steam sooo ...

If only the Unix people had a combined marketing arm ...?

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Roger Ivie

If anyone wants a commercial replacement for DOS, get OS/2 2.1 - it's far
better. But if you wanna have the real thing,

                                      GET LINUX

Ok, it's still in developement, but it's free and it has a immediate support,
if you're stuck somewhere ! But don't fall for people you wanna sell it to
you ! There are lots of companies and single persons who want to make
profit from other people's work ...

Sven

: NT is the Jurassic Park of Operating Systems.

: For JP, Paramount (?) spent mucho biggo bucks in promoting the damn
: thing so everybody and their brother is now salivating over it and
: so forth.  News programs are treating it as if it were Serious Stuff.
: etc etc.  It's all because of marketing & advertising.

At least JP was entertaining...  I'm beginning to subscribe to the
"NT is just a stall until [Intel develops a real CPU/Windows 4.0]"
school of thought.  Having seen Wabi running yesterday, though, I'd
say that NT won't be a very effective stall.

Speaking of _Jurrassic Park_ and NT, did anyone else notice what
the young girl muttered at the end of the "I know this, this is a
UNIX system...[mutter-mutter]" line?  A co-worker listened *real*
close and he claims that the rest of the line is, "... not that
wimpy NT."  I haven't had anyone else confirm this, but I think
that it's hilarious.  I believe that Silicon Graphics had quite a
bit to do with the production of the movie, and I can just imagine
some Unix jockey prompting them to slip that little dig into the
dialog.  Too bad there wasn't a Linux hacker around to suggest
another slight edit...

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Windows currently claims an installed base of approximately 10,000,000 --
that's millions folks -- and Microsoft convervatively plans on NT taking about
10% of that base, i.e. 1,000,000 machines.  By any account that is a shitload
of machines. More than the entire installed base of all Unix machines together.

        Brotzman's definition of "shitload":  any amount larger
        than any one person wants to deal with.

We can make all the cute remarks about "MS-DOG" and "Windoze" we like, and
guess what, thousands of businesses are still going to generate billions of
dollars of revenues using applications based on DOS and Windows.  Why?  Because
it is cost-effective and easy.

Personally, I love Linux, otherwise I wouldn't have spent the money on an
additional 200-Megabyte hard drive just for Linux.  But I haven't wiped my
MS-DOG disk because I like to be able to crank up Windows and Microsoft Word to
do simple word-processing tasks for my consulting business.  I could do the
work in twice the time in LaTeX, but why bother?  My customers expect
performance, not a product done "right" in twice the time (by the way, I
consider myself an expert in LaTeX, having written several style files and
Megabytes of documents in LaTeX; MS Word is just easier for simple tasks).

We of the academic world must come to grips with the simple fact that it is the
business world that really drives computer technology.  Unix vendors can make
a buck from government and university systems, but until they have the
installed application base that a business needs, they are going to continue
being intimidated by Microsoft with their enormous market share.

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Sun alone has a installed base of nearly 1 million SPARC boxes (not
counting Solaris for Intel here).

The ability of Windows NT to hoard up installed base is by no means
proven.  Remember the last time Mr. Gates talked about "the most
important program ever written?".  The trade rags howled about it.
Everyone talked about it.  Nobody bought.

Quote:>business world that really drives computer technology.  Unix vendors can make
>a buck from government and university systems, but until they have the
>installed application base that a business needs, they are going to continue
>being intimidated by Microsoft with their enormous market share.

The PC world gets media attention, that does not make it the only
game in the computer industry.  The Unix industry is very firmly
entrenched as the inheritor of the mainframe shakedown.  Even if
Windows NT is great at beating off OS/2 and Unix and the Mac on
the PC mindset, it will still leave the Unix industry holding around
$50 billion of sales a year right now.

        -ans.
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Quote:>Among (many) other things, he's doing quite a bit of the work on the MS-
>Windows compatibility interface (Linux version of Wabi).  And if he weren't

Cheers

Matt.

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