Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!lth.se!lo-2!d87hs From: d87hs@efd.lth.se (Henrik Sundstrom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: New product? Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 90 15:41:31 GMT References: <749@npiatl.UUCP> <1107@gort.cs.utexas.edu> <1499@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server) Distribution: comp Organization: EFD, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: adam@ncifcrf.gov's message of 6 Feb 90 02:28:56 GMT In article <1499@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> adam@ncifcrf.gov (Adam W. Feigin) writes: >Not that anyone asked me, but I just CANT resist: > >"Significant for IBM, but not for the rest of us....just another in a >long series of products that IBM has introduced to try to gain a >foothold in the workstation market, only to fail in doing so. When >will they ever learn." This in response to the upcoming IBM product announcement (February 15, 1990). As for workstations, the RT isn't the answer to anybodys prayers, and I hesitate to call any PS/2 a workstation. However, initiated rumor has it that among the soon-to-be-released IBM products there is indeed a new line of RISC-based workstations (possibly named System 6000) that should put an end to the insistant allegations that IBM is unwilling to release any technology which is not at least 10 years old. adam@ncifcrf.gov concludes: >If someone from IBM comes up to you and says they support Unix, run >very fast in the opposite direction; they are lying. It is true that UNIX (i.e AIX) is not IBM's most foremost field of interest, which is reflected by the fact that UNIX revenues represent only 1-2 percent of IBM's annual revenues for last year. Nevertheless, this rates IBM as the fifth largest UNIX company in the world in 1989 (UnixWorld, December 1989). I have little doubt that IBM will be the no. 1 UNIX company within five years. It is my sincere belief that, by that time, the UNIX support and development efforts of IBM have become more wholehearted. -- Henrik Sundstrom Email: d87hs@efd.lth.se Student of Computer Science, Lund Institute of Technology (Lund University) Snail: Bankgatan 14 A, 223 52 LUND, Sweden. Phone: +46 (0)46 18 83 48