[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:33:20 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:

> 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.

And Unix-like syntax, whether or not Unix itself, has been in the Alpha 
console, many disk controllers going back to the 1990s, and is in any 
managed network gear I have bought since circa 2000.

-- 
Paul Sture