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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (35299)	12/10/1999 1:26:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Interesting, thanks. I'm not really qualified to comment on Linux as it is discussed in those memos (with the exception of the "customers love it" bullet).... but let me ask the people here on this thread about something... Is linux different than unix in that it is a variant in itself, such that linux internals (specifically locking) are identical across different vendor linux products? It used to be that there were disc process (block buffering) etc. issues with the lock managers of the different unix's - depending on the hardware involved. Therefore, from my pov as an applications vendor, each version of unix was a different port for us. Is linux like that? (maybe not, because in unix we once had all these product names - dynix,irix,etc. to differentiate them - there is only one linux as far as I know, so far). These multiple versions of unix all over the place was unacceptable. The days of a database vendor creating ports for 40 unix variants and keeping up with the versioning and patches, etc. for each of those is long gone. Now maybe there will be one leader - rhat perhaps, and that one product will be THE linux that runs on everybody's boxes (I doubt it... Sun would commoditize themselves if that were to happen)... or maybe linux is more standard at the internals level than unix ever was so one applications port will kill all the birds with one stone. But if either of these is NOT the case, then linux will simply turn into unix wars version II. I think some of the analysts that are negative on linux share this pov. Others don't see all the issues, or maybe they weren't around when we went through this the first time.

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