From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 21 02:40:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA12864 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 02:40:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.hda.com (ip1-max1-fitch.ziplink.net [199.232.245.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id CAA12855 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 02:40:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id FAA22775; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 05:34:50 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199701211034.FAA22775@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: Cursing the sky (was: Commerical applications ...) In-Reply-To: <19583.853829170@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 20, 97 10:46:10 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 05:34:50 -0500 (EST) Cc: keithl@wakko.gil.net, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, chat@FreeBSD.ORG 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-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I kind of thought that the free Unices were all about the desktop market > > and recapturing the power > > No. UNIX on the desktop is dead... > ... We're a server OS now with minimal desktop functionality. (five people in a room waiting for Java...) No, wrong direction. Go under the desktop. The opportunity has traditionally come in at a lower point then the established base. Think $50.00 VAX 11/750 and where it could be applied. MS is going to aggressively battle the top end with NT while crippling the bottom end to avoid cannibalizing their product line - witness the purposefully broken server side named pipes in W95. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936