Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 14:18:12 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Job openings: Unix Network Programmers, Internet server Message-ID: <199609221818.OAA08250@etinc.com>
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>> Richard told me yesterday that Microsoft recently announced a >> multi-billion (yes, billion) dollar initiative to make NT *the* >> network operating system in 1997, and that's a whole heck of a lot of >> money. It's time for small companies involved with UNIX to pool their >> efforts or Bill is going to eat them all. He might eat them anyway, >> in the long run, but I'd really hate to look back on this time and >> reflect that we made it easy for him to do so by squabbling amongst >> ourselves while Microsoft raced ahead. I think the UNIX community has >> already done far too much of that already and it's time for a change. Its pretty hard to compete with micro$oft, but they've been throwing tons of money at the problem for years and only have NoT to show for it. Just find a niche and get what you can. Even if you were 5 times better you'd lose. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous PC Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX.
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