[Info-vax] READ and WRITE vs. SEARCH/OUTPUT

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/30/2012 3:29 AM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
>> Or made OSF/1 a bigger success. Many people consider OSF/1 aka
>> DU aka Tru64 to be a lot better than Ultrix.
>
> The first versions (up to V3) didn't look and feel
> much different from Ultrix, apart from being
> binary incompatible, of course.
> Not a good prerequisite for success in competition with
> the offerings from IBM, HP, Sun, etc.

Hmm.

I think the programming and sysadm was somewhat different.

>> Note that they would still have been toast today,
>
> not necessarily, if they had a consistent product to sell.
> IBM for example has a healthy Unix business,
> as far as I can see.

IBM may still make money on AIX, but the big commercial
unixes (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX) are loosing marketshare
quickly.

The point they are being sol on now are:
- they are good for very big database servers
- they have various Linux compatibility kits

Sound familiar?

Arne