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On The Death Of Unix
An anonymous reader writes "In an interview with Red Hat Asia Pacific boss Gus Roberston, he tells ZDNet why he believes Unix will be dead since in future, there will only be two operating systems left (for corporations). "We don't see ourselves competing against Microsoft. We are taking market share away from Unix," he said. However, IDC counters Robertson's claim saying Unix market share has actually been increasing in that part of the world."
sco unixware of course, the unix of real men!
doh!
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
...Long live Unix (as linux)
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It doesn't seem any deader than usual to me.
Programming can be fun again. Film at 11.
"I don't use [product] any more."
"What? but, Agnes you've always used [product].
"Nope, now I've switched--to *NEW*, *IMPROVED* [product]. It's even tastier, more absorbent, and 22.6% faster-acting!"
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
Is that some old Linux distro?
Slashdot article: Something is dead and/or dying
Discussion:
It's not dead, I use it all the time.
It's dead for the following reasons...
Flame 1...n (although highly informative flamewar)
Windows sucks.
It seems someone wants to celebrate the Death of UNIX at least once a year, why not make it a national holiday? Let all the SysAdmins take a day off.
Remember how Windows 95 died, and then suddenly there were no Windows users left in the world? Yeah, I thought it might be something like that...
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
hope i wan't have to remove my "unix forever" tatoo from my arm.
Crap!
I finally figured out vi!
You are attempting to read sigs. Cancel or Allow?
Not when all the sunshine is blocked by a redmond^H^H^H^Hwood.
Bowie J. Poag
Apple has been dead what? At least 50 times now.
BSD, well, let's just not go there.
Linux clearly is on its death bed, what with all those lawsuits by good wholesome Utahmericans fighting communism and
MS is clearly making way too much money to be alive much longer.
Does Unix have any reason to live while others die at least once a week. I say, if Unix doesn't make up its mind soon, let's kill it ourselves!
Cheers.
I think, therefore I am...I think.
GNU is not Unix.
Because we all know that elvis was an alien robot.
In an interview with Xzine and Unix, Unix tells
Xzine why it believes Gus Roberston will be dead
since in will be in the future. "A Guy (Gus) simply
can only live so long. If he won't last, why hire
him?" it said. However, Robertson countered,
claiming all rumours of his death were exaggerated
and that he was in excellent condition.
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sigamajig...
Only 2 ? the guy is dreaming.
.. they are just not relevant any more. Game over.
#1 OS - Embedded Linux & variants - running mobile phones, PDAs, cars, fridges, toasters, etc.
#2 OS - Free Unix variants - Linux, BSD, etc, running the desktops, front end systems and clustered servers.
#3 OS - Commercial Unixen, Solaris - MacOS - zSeries Linux - HPUX - Irix - as part of turn-key big mother mission critical systems.
#4 OS - Proprietry Commercial OSen, MVS (or whatever they run on mainframes these days), OpenVMS-II, Tandem Guardian, NSA super secret hackproof proprietry OS, and other weird ass stuff that does some very specific job.
Did I mention Microsoft at all ? no