“The cold and fog of Santa Cruz in August couldn’t dampen the
spirits of Unix enthusiasts as this year’s SCO Forum kicked off
with druid prognosticator Sumad Artsmen, the alter-ego of SCO
evangelist Tony Baines, declaring the ‘new millennium is now’ for
Unix.
Among the predictions offered by ‘Artsmen’ were the inability of
Windows NT to destroy Unix, Intel’s upcoming Merced chip as the
greatest volume opportunity Unix has ever seen, and the erosion of
proprietary Unix strongholds due to the emergence of ever-more
powerful Intel servers.”
…SCO’s chairman and CEO, Doug Michaels… continued the Unix
lovefest by rattling off analyst figures and SCO sales numbers
demonstrating extensive growth and potential for Unix, most of
which will ride the shoulders of Intel and their IA-64
architecture.”
“Michaels pointed to a general dissatisfaction with Windows NT
as an enterprise-level operating system and the demise of the
client/server computing model as the main reasons for the continued
success of Unix and the rosy outlook for its future. The driving
force behind this change, Michaels said, is the Internet.”
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