O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T?

[Karl Kleinpaste]

gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA writes:
   To compete with systems such
   as OS/2,...a unified front seems to be essential.

Exactly.  Everyone should remember the porting base from which OSF has
said it will work.

IBM's AIX.  On the IBM PC/RT.

Guess who wants to do major market things with OS/2?

Yup, I thought so.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that IBM (in particular, and DEC to a
lesser degree) *wants* OSF to fail...right when OS/2 is about to
become `real.'  IBM's ability to park a new product into an existing
market at exactly the right time is one of its long-standing
strengths.

$90M?  It seems like a lot, but not in the context of IBM's billions,
and the prospect for potential sales of PS/2's with OS/2.

   Whoever is
   pushing that either does not have the interests of the UNIX community
   at heart, or they haven't been paying close attention to the factors
   that have really been hindering the spread of UNIX.

Considering IBM's interest in OS/2, the lack of concern for the UNIX
community's interests is kinda vacuously obvious.

--Karl