alt.religion.your.operating.system.sucks
You wrote:
so your point, basically, is that the public will settle for whatever it can get, and get easiest and cheapest, when it comes to software and operating systems in particular.
I think you've grasped the fundementals! You'll soon make VP of Marketing. <g>
This may be the case, but there is certainly a growing market for internet-capable systems, and the most internet-friendly OS around is, of course, UNIX.
OS/2 comes internet-ready and pre-installed and it's still an almost complete failure in the market.
In that fact, and in the growing importance of having an OS that utilizes the full capabilities of increasing powerful personal computers, lies the future of UNIX.
In any mature market, technical superiority above some baseline level of sufficiency has no market value. The auto market is a classic example of this. Look how long tail-fins and chrome have dominated technical superiority as the prime focus of marketing. These are all marketing issues not technical issues! Dale H.
On Sun, 29 Jan 1995, Dale Harrison wrote:
This may be the case, but there is certainly a growing market for internet-capable systems, and the most internet-friendly OS around is, of course, UNIX.
OS/2 comes internet-ready and pre-installed and it's still an almost complete failure in the market.
that depends on what you think of as "internet-ready", IMHO. OS/2 is ready to fail in an endeavour to be what UNIX has been for over 25 years: a _truly_ internet-friendly, multitasking, multithreading OS.
In that fact, and in the growing importance of having an OS that utilizes the full capabilities of increasing powerful personal computers, lies the future of UNIX.
In any mature market, technical superiority above some baseline level of sufficiency has no market value. The auto market is a classic example of this. Look how long tail-fins and chrome have dominated technical superiority as the prime focus of marketing. These are all marketing issues not technical issues!
really? I would think over a decade of Japanese technical superiority in automaking (better gas mileage, better safety features, etc.) and the resultant move by the "Big 3" to be even more technically superior would tend to contradict that notion. Consumers are not totally stupid - they may drool over and rave about the latest flashy, technically inferior car, but when it comes down to it they'll most often buy the one with the best gas mileage, the best safety features, and so forth. Bryan Venable | c642011@cclabs.missouri.edu Student & MOO Administrator | wlspif@showme.missouri.edu U of Missouri - Columbia | spif@pobox.com SGI/Netscape/MOO addict | spif@m-net.arbornet.org Spif or Turmandir @ MOOs | http://www.phlab.missouri.edu/~c642011 <insert standard university disclaimer here>
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