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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Subject: Re: Novell signs letter of intent with AT&T to acquire USL
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.225536.9215@netcom.com>
- Keywords: UNIX, SVR4, USL, Novell
- Organization: Messina Software
- References: <brian.66.0@SJF.Novell.COM> <1992Dec22.144054.12914@sci34hub.sci.com> <1992Dec22.220657.9742@novell.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:55:36 GMT
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- dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec22.144054.12914@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
- >>In article <brian.66.0@SJF.Novell.COM> brian@SJF.Novell.COM (Brian Meek) writes:
- >>>Novell signs Letter of Intent with AT&T to ACQUIRE Unix system
- >>
- >>Oh, hell....
- >>I used to think that Unix would be a success, in spite of anything
- >>AT&T could do. I hate being wrong like this.
- >>Order your SysVr4 quick, before SysVr5 comes out, without grep, find,
- >>cut, xargs, tcp/ip, du, mountable file systems, fsck and all those
- >>other cryptic and useless functions, for the "reasonable" price of
- >>$20,000 or so.
- >
- >an awefully grumpy response. Can you not give it a chance?
-
- I guess Gary feels that UNIX will now follow UNIXWARE, not that UNIXWARE
- will be just one more derivative of UNIX. I don't know how justified
- that fear is, hope it is not. Besides, there are companies who are
- not following slavishly USL's steps, like SCO, and they seem to be doing
- quite well. Are they suddenly no good, either? I do not think that Novell
- believes that if drastic changes are made to future versions of UNIX then
- companies like SUN would follow that standard anymore. No, Gary, I would
- not be so pessimistic, I believe Novell has much more business sense that
- you give it. And besides - you can always vote with your pocket book
- and buy from a different vendor, no?
-
-