“I was talking to a Sun Microsystems product manager recently,
and he told me that it “disturbed” him how Linux developers
“practically lusted after each release.” Then there was the
Hewlett-Packard marketing guru who told me, “I wouldn’t let my
customers put their business at the mercy of a programming cult.”
It’s attitudes like these that have hindered the UNIX Systems Gang
(Compaq, HP, IBM, Sun, et. al.) from cranking up the sales machine
for their Linux “products.”
Also by Mark Hall:
Unix Riot:
Embedded databases with Linux back ends… (Jun 07, 1999)
Performance
Computing: The UNIX boycott of PCExpo… (Jun 26, 1999)
Performance
Computing: Mark Hall — UNIX RIOT for July 2, 1999 (Jul 03,
1999)