On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 10:55:04PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> I'm curious about what's behind your opinion of what constitutes
> "mainstream";
"maintream" has nothing to do with sales figures, which mattered little
to begin with, and matter less now that freeware has become a dominant
player in the market.
"mainstream" means "following long-established standards and just
as importantly, de facto standards, as recognized by Unix professionals
with significant experience". In that world, Solaris, Digital Unix,
and BSDI are usually considered among the best, with Irix and HP-UX
running behind, and AIX, SCO, and Unixware in the back seat.
For example, nobody with any clue tries building a firewall based
on a Unixware system, or a major data center on SCO. Nobody looks
to Unixware or SCO to provide leadership in adding new functionality
or to provide superior performance. And so on.
The only people who buy backwater Unixes like SCO and Unixware
are people who don't know any better. Happily for those
companies, there are a *lot* of people who don't know any better.
> As for using the words "BSDI" and "mainstream" in the same sentence, you
> must be joking...
Roughly 2/3 of US ISPs run their sites on BSDI. Because of that,
and because it's used a lot in DMZs, its influence extends far
beyond the superficial and inconsequential matter of its sales figures.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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