Re: UKNM: The End For NT? (Was AOL advertising)

[Sajid Mohammed]

---Chris Locke <

chrislondon [dot] virgin [dot] net

> wrote:

>

> ummm . . . don't you/didn't you work for IBM?


I don't like to talk about it. Yes I do ATM, but not exclusively.


> do I sense a volte-face?


Needless to say, my views do not reflect those of Big Blue...if I was

called Lou Gerstner then you would have cause for concern.


For the record, IBM is touting itself heavily as a NT solutions

provider - but it is also allying itself to the Open Source movement

(porting of DB2 to Linux, release of it's XML & SET codebase by

IBM/Lotus to the developer community etc.) and is still plugging AIX &

OS/400 too as well as that heap of crap out of Redmond called Windows

95...the only way the multi-armed beast that is IBM could commit a

volte-face would be to get back into punch cards.


IMHO, Windows has had it's day - the future belongs to Unix and

Microkernel OS products such as OS/9 & VxWorks. As a Mac* fan of many

years standing, I never liked Windows much to start off with so not

much chance of a volte-face from me...


Sajid Mohammed



*It's rumoured that Apple will be sticking Linux onto Power Macs as a

dual-boot thingy with Mac OS X...the upcoming MacOS X Server is Unix

under the skin anyway...

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