14 Jul
2011
14 Jul
'11
7:37 p.m.
On 7/12/11 4:26 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
To call this joint is complete nonsense. Sun was in a
cash bind, AT&T
wanted to make SVR4 the main Unix platform and SunOS was winning. The
story I heard, not widely known, is that AT&T bought a big pile of Sun
stock at 35% over market - in return for which Sun had to dump their BSD
based SunOS and go to SVR4.
Biggest mistake Sun ever made in my opinion.
And they ending up having to support 4.1.x for a VERY long time because
major customers (like Valid) had absolutely no interest in dumping BSD.