[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-08-20, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> I really don't understand this attitude that Unix is so great and inevitable. 
> Seems mostly a self fulfilling prophecy rather than based upon merit.  I guess 
> if you say something enough, people might start believing it.
>

Well for starters, in just one market segment, there's getting on for
about 1 million new devices per day which contain the Linux kernel
(if not the traditional userland tools) been activated by users.

In some markets, Unix is not only inevitable, it has already arrived and
it's not going to displaced any time soon.

You will also find, even when the underlying OS is not really Unix, that
a number of OS vendors have implemented a Unix-style POSIX programming
environment. This appears to be very common in the RTOS world.

Simon.

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