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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."

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  1. Re:Which Unix? by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Funny

    sco unixware of course, the unix of real men!

    doh!

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  2. Re:Sad but true by __past__ · · 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.

  3. It's just like a bad TV commercial... by dpbsmith · · 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!"

  4. Let me arrange this by ArmenTanzarian · · 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.

  5. UNIX is dead? by BeProf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Crap!

    I finally figured out vi!

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  6. About f*cking time by zpok · · 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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