From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 14 10:17:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA03035 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:17:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ingenieria ([168.176.15.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA03019 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:17:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co by ingenieria (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA27108; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:02:53 -0400 Message-ID: <33CA77BB.73D0@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:02:19 -0700 From: Pedro Giffuni Reply-To: m230761@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Fieber CC: "Joel N. Weber II" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My opinion about freebsd (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Fieber wrote: > > > > Unix is a much better platform to develop software for. At least you know > > what is going to be in the next release. > > The unix world isn't immune to directional changes, witness the > SunOS to Solaris shift or Ultrix to OSF/1. Anybody know where > SCO is headed now that they and HP have joint ownership of UNIX? I went to one of their conferences: very sad show...they played this "very northamerican" tape where they hired a comediant that makes fun of polititians and Berkeley students. Very simplisticly, they say: 1) They are the most popular commercial UNIX in world and now that they own it they will keep that way by "integrating" SVR3 and SVR4. 2) NT's growth in the Internet hasn't affected them because they are UNIX and stats show that only Novell is being affected. They also say bet on NCs. 3) They licensed some products from M$ and they support Java and Netscape's servers (Advanced File and Print Server). They are also developing a 64-bit version of their OS so they have the technology lead! It is evident they are worried about free software; they simply don't mention it and they released this single user versions. In short..Don't expect anything good from them. Curiously most commercial Linux applications are not available for SCO. There's no Acrobat reader, no Matlab, no Mathematica... couldn't some caritative hacker implement them an emulation module? :-) Pedro.