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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (20064)	4/8/1999 5:26:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) of 74651

cheryl... I'm not quite sure what John was trying to point out here, but it brings up an interesting point. As a software applications developer as far as I'm concerned Linux is yet another unix variant I have to port my application to. The unix vendors better get a handle on this and standardize this time. When I worked at Oracle in the early 90s we had almost as many developers porting to all the unix variants as we did working on some parts of the kernel - can you imagine Sun,HPUX,irix,IBM had 2 unix's, etc etc and the next thing you know its 30+ different ports - this is unaccepable and thats why the minute NT became a viable alternative the software companies jumped on board. The unix management including McNealy knew this was going to be a problem and yet never solved it 8 years ago. If Linux is the winner, so be it, commoditize the platform and differentiate yourselves on hardware... of course its tempting not to do that and to tweak the OS in some way to gain a competitive adv... the software companies won't fall for that this time I'm afraid.

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