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There are unlikely to be any new applications developed solely for Unix after 2009, George Weiss, a Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst, told attendees at Gartner's annual Open Source Summit here Sept. 20. "I expect that, around 2009, we will have seen the last application developed specifically for Unix, after which no applications will be developed just for that operating system, though updates to existing applications will continue for some time to come," Weiss said in an address titled "Planning a Third-Generation Linux Enterprise."
Given that ANSI C has existed in a codified state since 1989, I'd hazard that no new Unix apps have been written since then, but what do I know? Only that my Kalah game, written on a 3b2 in 1988-89 under SysV can still compile and run on Linux 2.6.23.1 today, as can a checkers game I wrote under NeXTStep in 1991-92.
Gee whiz, Mr Gartner, have you ever actually written a program for Linux or Unix or Solaris? Ever? Have you paid attention to portability issues? Cripes, I used to try to compile and test my C programs under NetBSD, Solaris (32 and 64 bit modes on SPARC) and HP-UX on their crazy PA-RISC hardware just to try to work out any pointer size assumptions or endianness kinks. It took a little work, but it wasn't THAT hard. Same as doing byacc vs bison today.
I have to conclude that Mr Gartner hasn't written a new analysis since 1987 or so, and has been COASTING ever since, slightly re-writing old analyses written when Gartner actually employed people who looked at the problem. Or, since that Golden Age may never have actually occurred, they just MAKE THINGS UP.
Well said. I wish Gartner would fold its tent and go away. No loss except a lot of hot air.
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Gee whiz, Mr Gartner, have you ever actually written a program for Linux or Unix or Solaris? Ever? Have you paid attention to portability issues? Cripes, I used to try to compile and test my C programs under NetBSD, Solaris (32 and 64 bit modes on SPARC) and HP-UX on their crazy PA-RISC hardware just to try to work out any pointer size assumptions or endianness kinks. It took a little work, but it wasn't THAT hard. Same as doing byacc vs bison today.
I have to conclude that Mr Gartner hasn't written a new analysis since 1987 or so, and has been COASTING ever since, slightly re-writing old analyses written when Gartner actually employed people who looked at the problem. Or, since that Golden Age may never have actually occurred, they just MAKE THINGS UP.