On The Death Of Unix

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Posted by Hemos on Monday December 1, 2003 @01:42AM from the what-will-actually-happen dept.

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."

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Re:Which Unix? by gl4ss · 2003-12-01 01:47 · Score: 4, Funny

sco unixware of course, the unix of real men!

doh!

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Re:Sad but true by __past__ · 2003-12-01 01:57 · Score: 4, Funny

"Unix is dead"
As somebody has said about Lisp, which is also dying for longer than most of its competition exists:
It doesn't seem any deader than usual to me.

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It's just like a bad TV commercial... by dpbsmith · 2003-12-01 01:58 · Score: 5, Funny

"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!"

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Let me arrange this by ArmenTanzarian · 2003-12-01 02:20 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
UNIX is dead? by BeProf · 2003-12-01 02:47 · Score: 4, Funny

Crap!

I finally figured out vi!

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Re:Has anyone else noticed this? by Bowie+J.+Poag · 2003-12-01 02:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Not when all the sunshine is blocked by a redmond^H^H^H^Hwood.

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About f*cking time by zpok · 2003-12-01 03:02 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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Elvis is Dead? by pavon · 2003-12-01 03:19 · Score: 2, Funny

Because we all know that elvis was an alien robot.
in other news: Gus Roberston to be dead in future by xlurker · 2003-12-01 03:51 · Score: 2, Funny

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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There will be 4 OS's in the future by steveoc · 2003-12-01 05:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Only 2 ? the guy is dreaming.

#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 .. they are just not relevant any more. Game over.