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- From: pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky)
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
- Organization: University of Western Ontario
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:40:56 GMT
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- rjsmith@iron.hq.aflc.af.mil (Randy Smith) writes:
-
- >
- > >Does this mean that Novell is stacking up Unix against Windows NT?
- >
- > > It may not be such a bad move to get Unix more into the mainstream. Novel
- > >has more experience and greater success in moving application and os softwar
- > >than AT&T / USL.
- >
- > Let's look at Windows NT. Microsoft has said that NT is for high-end PCs and
- > RISC-based machines, it has integrated networking support, *real* multitaskin
- > and [my opinion] will be too expensive for the "common" end-user PC. So NT i
- > clearly going after the PC server market where Novell has something like
- > 70-80% of the market. Getting the rights to the best multitasking OS around
- > that has had something like 20 years of development and who knows how many
- > actual manyears of development sounds like a pretty good idea to me. Also
- > NetWare 4.0 has been written in C so it's fairly portable. UNIX systems have
- > been kinda shunned by the whole PC LAN office environment and this may be
- > the way to bring it all together.
- >
- > Good luck to Novell and death to Windows NT!
-
- While I agree with much of what you have said here, it reminds me
- of what seems to a problem unique to the Internet. I suppose I
- shouldn't be surprised given that the place is still largely populated
- with technical types but the "Micro$oft bad, Bill Gates evil, Bill Gates
- badbadbad, NT sucks" stuff amazes me.
-
- As an investor I couldn't give a flying fuck what
- problems people have with a company on a product/emotional level -- I
- just want to make money on smart investments and the source is
- irrelevant. It is baffling that there are people up here who
- simply refuse to invest in/give credit to Microsoft and make any
- money on a stock that has proven to one of the greatest boons to
- investors this century.
-
- Oh well, I suppose I shouldn't quibble. If more people had bought it
- sooner it would have become overpriced even faster than it was.
-
- Paul
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