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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (20170)4/9/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: Alan Buckley  Respond to of 74651
 
[A consortium of companies, led by IBM (I believe), is trying
to find ways to standardize Unix]

...and has been trying since the 1980's. Trouble is, the members of this consortium are competitors who are also looking for ways to differentiate their products from the other guys. So far, the goals have proven mutually exclusive and the exercise has produced little customer benefit.



To: Gerald Walls who wrote (20170)4/9/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 74651
 
standardize Unix
Hmmm. It seemed that IBM began a consortium several years ago to standardize Unix. Only that wasn't the purpose. The purpose was to confuse the Unix issue enough that the plan for AT&T and SUN to standardize using the Sparc chipset would fail. It worked, as soon as the unix market was disrupted and spit apart then IBM dropped any development on it's AIX product. Are they at it again?
TP


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