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To: Justin Banks who wrote (17535)	2/18/1998 8:21:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

<I'm curious as to what your background is, and what makes you think that NT is more easily adapted and extended?> Alan is approaching the argument from the much more realistic market driven perspective, while you are approaching it form the techie standards based perpsective. Do you remember my warning about what would happen if the standards diverged from the demands of the market?

To: Justin Banks who wrote (17535)	2/18/1998 2:49:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

[Where are you getting your definition of proprietary? These Unices are standardized on various POSIX, Unix9x, and other standards, with an specification open to anybody that can read.] From the customer, Justin. The only guy who's opinion really matters in business. To the quoted customer, POSIX, Unix9x, etc don't matter because as a whole they aren't strong enough to lower his costs. He said "Each Unix brand is relatively proprietary so there's not enough competition to generate downward pressure [on costs]," Randich says. This is a failing of the Unix community. All the "competition" they've been providing with each other has not lowered the customers cost sufficiently. If they had focused on this 10 years ago, there would be no need for NT today. Now it may be too late.