Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 05:34:50 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: keithl@wakko.gil.net, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cursing the sky (was: Commerical applications ...) Message-ID: <199701211034.FAA22775@hda.hda.com> In-Reply-To: <19583.853829170@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 20, 97 10:46:10 pm"
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> > I kind of thought that the free Unices were all about the desktop market > > and recapturing the power > > No. UNIX on the desktop is dead... > ... We're a server OS now with minimal desktop functionality. (five people in a room waiting for Java...) No, wrong direction. Go under the desktop. The opportunity has traditionally come in at a lower point then the established base. Think $50.00 VAX 11/750 and where it could be applied. MS is going to aggressively battle the top end with NT while crippling the bottom end to avoid cannibalizing their product line - witness the purposefully broken server side named pipes in W95. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936
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