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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:22:23 +0200
From: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>
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Subject: Re: Rumors of the death of Unix have been greatly exaggerated...
References: <19970824100019.40411@lemis.com> <199708241054.GAA02900@i4got.lakewood.com> <19970824191944.AV07605@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch shared with us:
> As Bill Pechter wrote:
> 
> >   Lucent and AT&T have moved 
> > their desktops and a number of pieces of development to NT boxes.  (Price
> > drives all decisions in the free market.)
> 
> Apparently not.  If this were the case, we'd have many more FreeBSD
> and Linux installations.  So it very apparently drives not *all*
> decisions.

Except when the party involved wants official support, like about
all mayor corporations.

- Peter