Re: Merced makes things interesting, eh?

Richard Gooch (Richard.Gooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 15:43:57 +1000

Terry L. Ridder writes:
> I would tend not to believe anything the media writes.
> Several weeks ago at a Software Engineering Symposium I had a chance
> to talk with several engineers from HP, Sun, SGI, etc.
>
> To quote an engineer from one the companies.
> <Begin Quote>
> We really do not care what OS is running on the hardware, just
> as long as it is our hardware.
> <End Quote>
>
> When pressed for further information it seems that this company
> has plans to sell hardware minus any OS with the assumption being
> that the end-user will probably install Linux.

I wonder when the penny will drop for the UNIX vendors? Who will be
the first to ditch their OS and instead pour their development effort
into value-added Linux?

Regards,

Richard....

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