[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[David J Dachtera]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
> In article <9f559497-1bb5-4f65-a906-b39db0dd4c2c at k41g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
>         yyyc186 <yyyc186 at hughes.net> writes:
> > On Apr 4, 5:35 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> >> In article <49D6D457.A96B7... at spam.comcast.net>,
> >>         David J Dachtera <djesys... at spam.comcast.net> writes:
> >>
> >> How many times do you need to be told that Unix is adaptable enough that
> >> pretty much any of the things you mentioned could have been (and still
> >> could be) added except that Unix users don't see them as something to
> >> be bothered about.
> >>
> > Saying it doesn't make it true.  UNIX, Linux, and Windows cannot
> > cluster.  Period.
> 
> You mean they can't cluster like VMS does.  People keep bringing up
> things VMS does that Unix doesn't and think that makes Unix somehow
> deficient.  And yet, VMS is dying and Unix is thriving.  Go figure.

I think we all know that it has nothing to do what what can be done by
which, it has to do with - get ready for it - MARKETING!!!!

[snip]
> >                                                            It created
> > an animal which was shunned by both worlds, yet that animal was still
> > better than that half completed Unix variant put out by HP.
> 
> And still Unix thrives in an industry that has resioundingly rejected
> VMS.  Go figure.

Then again, has the market ever been mislead about the future of UN*X,
or any vednor-specific flavor of it? (Hint: How much UN*X is SCO selling
these days, in between their legal filings?)

The market *WAS* mislead about Vista, and again about W7. That's gothe
market thinking about whather or not its time to jump the M$ ship
entirely and go Linux and OO.o.

D.J.D.