Unix vendors in general/Esix

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nlane at well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane) writes:


>Our company has just started selling Unix software and the hardware to
>run it on due to my insistence and unix experience - we chose Esix
>primarily because of support policies; but that's not the point of this.

>I must say that there are standards for Unix software - the standard
>set by AT&T - not SCO, not Interactive, not Esix.  Why don't vendors
        ^^^^
I surely hope that when you say "the standard set by AT&T" you mean the
various open systems consortiums to which AT&T belongs, and not AT&T
the single.

My point here is that why should one company get to set the standards
by which we all live and compute by?
 
LONG LIVE OPEN SYSTEMS!!

>adhere to the standard?  Only straying when ABSOLUTELY necessary?
>They'd be happy with a bigger market, we'd be happy with more software.