[Novalug] Is Microsoft dying???

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

  Hello? McFly!

NFS. NIS. Java.

Sun was The Cool UNIX Vendor, who picked up the ball when the Vaxen died 
and BSD was left without a platform.

Bill Joy went from UCB to Sun.

OK, so NFS and NIS were flawed, but consider the times.

I would also argue that Sun attempted to give away XDR and RPC but they 
were less useful.

The path of UNIX is pretty much

V1 -> V7 -> 4BSD -> SunOS -> Solaris -> Red Hat Linux

Now clearly I don't mean "code base". More like "Dominant Strain".

Actually, that last one is somewhat debatable, because Red Hat is not 
the most Interesting or Grooviest distro to tinker with, but Red Hat is 
the vendor that has managed to balance the Business Side with the 
Innovation Side, and the one you are likely to see the most job openings 
for.

JIM

On 10/30/2010 1:44 PM, William Sutton wrote:
> Not that Sun was exactly an example of benificence.
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
>
>>  On 10/27/2010 10:33 AM, ethan at 757.org wrote:
>>>> http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/27/technology/microsoft_pdc/index.htm?cnn=yes&hpt=T2 
>>>>
>>>> Open for dicussion...
>>> Microsoft is old evil. Google is the new evil.
>> Don't forget Oracle, with their purchase of Sun.
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