Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux

Onymous Hero writes "The amazing thing isn't that Windows beat the pants off Unix; it's that so many of the Unix companies survived until today. An article from eWeek looks at why Linux has been so successful where Unix failed." From the article: "While the Unix companies were busy ripping each other to shreds, Microsoft was smiling all the way to the bank. Because the Unix businesses couldn't settle on software development standards, ISVs (independent software vendors) had to write not a single application to get the whole Unix market, they had to write up to a half-dozen different versions. Which would you rather do? Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems? "

Comments

Re:Make that three.

[hungrygrue]

That is still only two, he counted SCO as still being "in the UNIX business".

Re:Is LSB a valid system or isn't it?

[Junior J. Junior III]

LSB may be fundamentally broken, but just wait for LSC, which will almost work. And then, emerging from the smoking ashes of LSC, after much pain and labor, we'll have LSD. And LSD is going to be faaaaaar out.

Re:Make that three.

[Daniel_Staal]

Hey, SCO is still in the Unix business!

...the way a tapeworm is in a dog...