In the UK, Orpington, Kent-based Benchmark Research Ltd’s second annual report on the attitudes of large system users towards Unix, and open systems in general, finds that the trend to move away from proprietary systems is accelerating. It found that 41% of information technology managers, systems managers and data processing managers questioned would consider replacing their current proprietary systems with Unix-based systems – compared with only 30% in last year’s survey; 55% of those questioned say that Unix will become the most important operating systems within five years: the report was commissioned by Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
