From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 1 04:26:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA14842 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 04:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [208.220.66.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA14836 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 04:26:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA06625 for chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 06:41:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199708011041.GAA06625@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: UNIX World Online In-Reply-To: <15493.870380681@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 31, 97 01:24:41 pm" To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 06:41:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > UNIX World Online has a really bad Windows NT add on it. What's going on > > here? > > Just more of what's been going on for many months. Unlike Luke > Skywalker, you see, when UNIX World and UNIX review were both > approached by Darth, they said "hey man, tell us more about this dark > side thing - it sounds cool. We both wanna be just like you!" > > Everything which has since followed was only the inevitable. ;) NT in Unix Review. Right. In this month's Upside article about DEC tanking there is a great quote from some Micro-exec-lackey about "strategic partners". Without any shame he says strategic parter size isn't important - roughly, "a 100 person strategic partner will be more important to Microsoft than a 10,000 person strategic partner when the small company is proposing a 100% Microsoft solution and the large company is proposing a heterogeneous solution". Not exactly the same as the Unix market. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Safety critical systems, Agency approval