Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!albanycs!crdgw1!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.UUCP From: amanda@intercon.UUCP (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Re: Future direction of A/UX? Message-ID: <19-May-89.180803@192.41.214.2> Date: 19 May 89 21:58:26 GMT References: <6408@oxtrap.UUCP> <4036@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <7304@hoptoad.uucp> <30843@apple.Apple.COM> <7359@hoptoad.uucp> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: amanda@intercon.UUCP (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Sterling, VA Lines: 38 In article <6408@oxtrap.UUCP>, time@oxtrap.UUCP (Tim Endres) writes: [quoting John Gilmore's recent tirades about A/UX] > Apple has made obtaining A/UX one of the most difficult prospects > a Macintosh owner faces. I am still amazed at the EFFORT it took [...] As much of an A/UX bigot as I am :-), this indeed seems to be true, and I'd even say that it can be phrased even more strongly: Apple's marketing people do not understand A/UX, and therefore don't understand why someone would want to buy it unless it is specified on a bid. This seems to extend to many of the people running the developer programs as well. Unfortunately, the people who read the net aren't the ones that need convincing (Phil, for example, seems pretty clear about things :-)). There does seem to be a growing amount of internal "evangelism" for A/UX, which I find heartening. The federal sales force in particular seems to be catching on fast, and there are growing signs of life elsewhere in the company. Even so, despite Apple's slogan of "one person, one computer," there don't yet seem to be very many people at Apple that understand that there is a reasonable single-quantity market out here; all of the A/UX marketing direction seems to be towards large installations, such as the governement, universities, and so on. It takes a while, though, and Apple still is a little new at the UNIX game... Myself, I think an SE/30 with A/UX 1.1 would make a *hot* little personal computer... -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation -- This posting is my opinion, not my employer's, even if the two do happen to coincide.