Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 15:44:24 -0500 From: mikk0022@maroon.tc.umn.edu To: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rumors of the death of Unix have been greatly exaggerated... Message-ID: <199708242044.PAA01693@x173-171.reshalls.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:22:23 %2B0200." <19970824202223.49716@grendel.IAEhv.nl>
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> > J Wunsch shared with us: > > As Bill Pechter wrote: > > > > > Lucent and AT&T have moved > > > their desktops and a number of pieces of development to NT boxes. (Price > > > drives all decisions in the free market.) > > > > Apparently not. If this were the case, we'd have many more FreeBSD > > and Linux installations. So it very apparently drives not *all* > > decisions. > > Except when the party involved wants official support, like about > all mayor corporations. Which isn't cheap for /any/ operating system. And it exists for FreeBSD. (well, they have a sizeable 'consultants' page, anyway). Also, with FreeBSD, UNIX shops wouldn't incur the extra cost of re-training, re-hiring, and/or/ running with inexperienced staff during re-training/hiring. NT is not ready for prime-time, and the shop would still need a UNIX server or two (even Microsoft did). Then you have the extra cost/hassle of maintaining a heterogeneous network (ouch). -Chris
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