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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: Novell just bought Unix?
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- References: <2B360E6C.369@news.service.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:27:04 GMT
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- In article <2B360E6C.369@news.service.uci.edu> mwu@orion.oac.uci.edu (Matt Wu) writes:
- >I just heard that Novell bought USL.
-
- Not quite yet... they announced intent. Will take a couple of months, but
- seems likely to go through.
-
- >What does this mean?
-
- Good question... I'll offer some opinions...
-
- + Unix (actually SVR4... which isn't and shouldn't be called "Unix")
- sales will go up.
-
- + Novell can't possibly be any worse than AT&T.
-
- + Byte will publish an issue headlined "Is Unix reborn?"
-
- + Bill Gates is running around his $4x10^8 multi-media mansion screaming
- "Unix is dead! NT will triumph!"
-
- + Microsoft stock will take a dip (if you own any, now is the time to
- dump it... the company is overvalued, and the recent revelations of
- likely pending anti-trust actions are going to hurt it a lot. This
- Novell-USL thing isn't going to help them any, either.)
-
- + The "feature checklist" for corporate file servers will now include
- a little check-box for "Unix".
-
- + "Open Systems Today" will merge with PC-Magazine.
-
- Other than that it doesn't mean much... USL has lost control of the
- operating system anyway, now that there are independent Unix implementations
- and Unix-compatible OSes, including completely free ones. One thing that
- remains to be seen and that will have some significance is what happens to
- the USL-BSD suit. Novell could make a lot of friends by dropping it (and
- firing the idiots responsible for it.)
-
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