Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!jack!crash!gryphon!greg From: greg@gryphon.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Microsoft dropping Xenix Message-ID: <2489@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 01:39:51 EST Article-I.D.: gryphon.2489 Posted: Sat Dec 5 01:39:51 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 03:23:00 EST References: <4610@well.UUCP> Reply-To: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 35 Keywords: Microport Real Unix In article <4610@well.UUCP> wolf@well.UUCP (Dwight Leu) writes: > >I'm sorry to say that this is hardly a professional statement; >and ms snader's subsequent comments are obviously not informed ones. And thus, we are to believe, it is made to be so. > >Sorry amy. You just aren't familiar with real UNIX technology, or >the effort at commercializing UNIX, which ATT is dumping millions of >dollars into. If you were you'd know about ATT's certification program. >It's a rigorous testing procedure, exercising the UNIX port inside >and out. And it's designed to insure that a port meets the demanding >standards which ATT has been working on since 1983. The merged UNIX >port will either conform or it won't be accepted. If Microsoft breaks UNIX, >they will have to go back and fix it. There are no if's, and's or but's. > Apparently, this rigorous certification process doesn't impose any limitation on crashing and burning. If the postings here by disaffected Microport users are any indication of the level of performance required by the rigourous testing procedures, Microsoft could probably get MSDOS certified as meeting the standard. Generally speaking, whining about your comptetitors won't mollify your dissatisfied customers whose dissafection with Microport seems to speak for itself. Instead, why don't you address some of your customers' complaints. As VP of Engineering, one might conclude that many of these complaints were within your purview. -- Greg Laskin "When everybody's talking and nobody's listening, how can we decide?" INTERNET: Greg.Laskin@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4}!crash!gryphon!greg UUCP: {philabs, scgvaxd}!cadovax!gryphon!greg