From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 01:01:27 -0500 From: Brandon Black photon@nol.net Subject: The future of Plan9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 58d2dc36-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19970430060127.1ynYdJNFYzQIl1nvUNHV3dXaS8BvfwRVY5LLgeV6pTI@z> I have an almost clear definition in my mind of what _I_ wish would come of Plan 9/Brazil. Unix is entrenched in the business world, and Unix will probably not go away for a very long time. I am a unix person, so please don't take my bashing wrong..... Unix has fallen over the years... most of the commercial vendors (Sun, SGI, IBM, DEC, ....) have concentrated on GUI's, Systems Admin tools, and hardware speedups in recent versions. The commercial unix world has very miserably failed to put forth new operating system concepts, like those introduced by Plan 9. Now, Brazil would never get any market share as a *nix replacement, because it is not compatible enough or supported enough (I can see commercial buyers saying: Where's C++? Where's the normal *nix include files? There's no Sybase or Oracle server for this? etc.....).... However, The concepts learned from Brazil could be deployed into current *nix systems. Lucent could license out the Brazil source code for incorporation into the commercial *nix's.... or could incorporate it into Reasearch Unix... or add some plan9-ish-ness to the successor of the SysVR4 definition..... or some combination thereof... I can only imagine what it would feel like to bind namespaces under Solaris, or to use remote CPU resources to compile software without leaving my local environment on an SGI.... my $.02 Brandon