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From: few@gupta.portal.com (Frank Whaley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft And Friends
Message-ID: <1990Nov11.174012.9566@gupta.portal.com>
Date: 11 Nov 90 17:40:12 GMT
References: <4624@gara.une.oz.au> <1990Nov9.193424.1196@amd.com>
Organization: Gupta Technologies Inc
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In article <1990Nov9.193424.1196@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>Actually, OS/2 has more sophisticated technology than Unix.

I tried long and hard to stay out of this, but I've heard this argument
too many times without a single line of proof.  Can anyone name even
one example of 'more sophisticated technology' available in OS/2 that
is not available in at least one flavor of Unix?

>But more important, compare the applications available for
>OS/2 (especially when it has Windows compability but even
>without it, you have Excel and Word for OS/2) and the
>applications for Unix.

I'll admit Unix applications lack some of the sophistication of their
Microsoft counterparts.  This has nothing to do with the differences
between systems, but rather the differences in markets.  Should the
market change, Unix applications will rapidly gain sophistication.

>I think you don't understand what real users want. Namely: applications!

No one wants an application.  People only want solutions to their
problems.  People buy the technology that provides a cost-effective
solution (if they're smart :-)

A final question:  Is anyone posting to this thread via an OS/2
machine on the Net?
-- 
Frank Whaley
Software Engineer
Gupta Technologies
few@gupta.portal.com