Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:18:56 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000901131856.A47895@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <200008311557.IAA02245@usr06.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:57:20PM %2B0000 References: <20000831164333.B33795@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200008311557.IAA02245@usr06.primenet.com>
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On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:57:20PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: | McCabe built BattleMap., <snip> | It looks like the program has been renamed and is part of their | IQ2 product suite. | | It looks like it also may now be on Windows (NT), with some | reduced functionality. | | You might also try typing (with quotes intact) "branch path analysis" | into the altavista search engine. i found another product called 'panorama'. This one also runs on *nix and M$. I guess what I am getting at, Terry (and everyone), is that *nix seems to be losing ground in the workstation arena. I might be totally unaware of some or many vertical market apps or other niche apps, but with the growth of the cheap Intel hardware market, it seems there is very little *nix can do that Win cannot do. Is this just the evolution of the hardware and software markets? Can/should anything be done about it, or is this shift both permanent and inevitable at this point? If the jobs that only *nix could do are now accessible on M$ platforms, that does not bode well for the *nix workstation future. (1) Is *nix destined to become just a server and otherwise behind the scenes OS (albeit the best)? (2) What, if anything, can be done besides requesting and then buying BSD native apps from developers? And learning to write our own :) jcm -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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