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To: cfimx who wrote (10614)	7/22/1998 8:37:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

>I have to laugh at unix unification. is sunw going to unify compaq >and hwp and get them to go Solaris? no? then how is unix going to be >unixfied? there is a unification going on unbeknownst to thread >participants, however it doesn't involve sunw. > >twisted HP-UX - weakly supporting their UNIX and giving all there customers heart-burn due to non-standard, breaks binary compatibility, and abandonment of PA-RISC in place of Merced (good luck and keep waiting baby! ) - Stratus selected them since they fell on their face with FTX ; that's the only reason. CPQ - they're a PC vendor and I don't think they have the knads to step into the mid to high-end server environment especially trying to present a uniform interface with N hardware platforms and N OS'es Solaris - being choosen by Fujitsu-ICL, Siemens, NCR, and eventually IBM as a replacement for AIX (just my hunch since IBM/Lotus and Sun are big-time buddies) - binary compatibility between releases AND architectures, best server iron hands down, and some kick-ass workstations to boot - most inovative wrt to networking (Java, NIS, RPC and NFS are Sun babies) Solaris will become the UNIX of choice to run across many hardware architectures; hence UNIX unification. /James