“What do you get when you toss three losing operating systems
into one huge pot? A great idea, believe it or not, and that’s what
IBM’s Project Monterey is looking to be.”
“…Let’s look at the facts. SCO’s UnixWare had some low-end
success, and it had a good story to tell in the midrange Intel
market. But, for all practical purposes, it had been going
absolutely nowhere because it was being unequivocally killed by
Linux.”
“…Sun has problems with Solaris. The company, in fact, is
desperate, given its latest actions. It’s being attacked in the
low-end Intel market by Linux, and it’s being threatened at the
high end by Monterey, which, of course, isn’t ready. But you have
to plan ahead.”