Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhc!edwardm From: edwardm@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: IBM to offer NeXTStep on AIX Message-ID: <680021@hpcuhc.HP.COM> Date: 9 Feb 90 19:31:29 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 41 Myron Deale writes: > ... > Key phrase: supported by the industry leaders. I realize I'm being > a stick in the mud, but whatever IBM supports ... I get suspicious. Same > with the rooskies denouncing communism :) > I hope OSF, NextStep and NeXT do well. OSF though, is supposed to be > a group effort and not a forum for 'em, er IBM. I am confident OSF > will make it, but I'd rather see it die now than become the puppet of > one company, a large company. Well, judging by recent happenings in OSF, I'd say they are not in danger of becoming a puppet of IBM. First of all, I believe OSF originally planned to base their OS on AIX, but now they have decided to go with MACH. I understand that this is an Apples vs. Oranges switch, i.e. OSF will need more than MACH alone and may get much from IBM's AIX and elsewhere. Secondly, as evidenced by past decisions like Motif, the tendency is for OSF to "combine" features of several competing products which are submitted to them. Expect more of these "collaborations"... Not speaking for HP, I do recall some concern that HP had too much influence in OSF since both HP and APOLLO were original members of OSF. I guess for a short time, HP got/gets two votes (to IBM's one, etc...). Incidently, Myron's reference to "rooskies denouncing communism" is interesting. While some Soviet's are definately expousing other views, the most notable change in the USSR is the abolishment of their One Party System. Don't feel too smug. Here in the US, we have a media enforced Two Party System (a small improvement over one). So, maybe Myron wasn't assuming that the one company pulling the strings would necessarily be IBM... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Edward McClanahan Hewlett Packard Company Mail Stop 47UE -or- edwardm%hpda@hplabs.hp.com 19447 Pruneridge Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 Phone: (408)447-5651