Bill,
Sorry for the unclearness about "distribution" system, I try to
elaborate here again.
Apple just can not totally give away all their notbook, power book,
and high-end desktop licenses to cloners, since it almost totally
counts on their revenue. Another words, Apple just cannot distribute
its own products licenses to cloners free or a little fees. Does
Sun, SGI, or HP-UX distribute its own OS and hardware licenses to Dell
or Compaq? No, but they still propser and grow in a rapid pace.
Talking about Unix system, in the corporate levels, either private
industries or federal governments, there is about 90% of the whole
development and production environment using Unix-based system, Sun
Solaris, HP-UX, IBM-AIX, Silicon Graphics, DEC Ultra, and future
Rhpsody are all Unix-based system. They are all proprietary systems,
however, porting from one to another becomes very handy and easy since
they are all Unix-oriented systems although Unix has various origins.
Microsoft's window is based on DOS, different from Unix, which is
really a proprietary system if you like to talk about who is really
a proprietary one. For Sun's Java, Microsoft has to create a virture
system to cope with non-100% Java codes, which is obvious that window
cannot communicate with other world, Unix groups.
I am very happy to see that Rhpsody will be on the market, which will
make college students learn more about Unix system, enable them
to capture job skills as they enter the moarket.
IMHO
Phil C. Lee |
