On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:42 PM > > In the 1990s, 90% of desktop users in the financial industry used some flavor of Unix: Sun, IBM, HP and NeXT dominated that business. When NT 3.1 came along, it was buggy and limited in power, but it swept the market, pushing Unix aside on every trading desk, in every research department and throughout the back offices. Soon all the desktops were Windows, while Unix continued to dominate in the server closet. This is still more or less the situation today.
Solaris and HP-UX were made available for PCs, but found no takers. NeXT-Step lives on as Mac OS. Server farms went from commercial flavors of Unix to one or another distro of Linux. Literally billions of critical business, scientific and engineering application programs are running successfully under all the available operating systems. The marketplace has had more than 20 years to sort this out, and thousands of contributors with maximum computer-science chops have devoted major chunks of their careers to this quest. To say that we need to scratch them all and start over, without even being able to define what would be the proposed improvement, reveals a lack of understanding both of the economics and the technology of modern computing. 73, Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
