Article 52921 of comp.sys.dec: Bryan Althaus wrote: > > Since when was Digital ever a shown a PRO UNIX showing? Remember the > quote of "UNIX is snake oil" from the founder and x-CEO of Digital. Sure do. I was there. Ken Olsen said (and I of course am paraphrasing) that "any vendor who claims that his Unix implementation is completely portable, solves all interoperability issues, etc. is selling you snake oil." In other words, KO never said that Unix is snake oil. He did, however, claim that Unix "is about as interesting as a Russian truck." > Digital has always loved it baby VMS, and with NT being developed > by the same designer as VMS (Cutler) and with Microsoft backing of > both NT and Digital I don't find any of this hard to believe. > > There really is only one true UNIX company and always has been and > it's Sun. They have no legacy non-UNIX systems, and all they care > about is UNIX. I seem to have heard something about a language called Java. Sun also acknowledges the existence of WNT. Terry Shannon Publisher, Shannon Knows DEC http://www.hrgresearch.com