The latest issue of the Microprocessor Report takes a deserved pot shot at Unix, declaring that it is still insufficiently standardised and therefore may have missed its opportunity to make any credible dent on the desktop – Sun Microsystems Inc’s Solaris and Univel Inc’s Destiny notwithstanding. It also theorises that Microsoft Corp’s Windows New Technology presents the biggest dilemma for Sun: if its application base migrates to ruining the prospects of Solaris-on-Intel and seriously weakening SunSoft Inc. If it doesn’t convert its software to run under NT, how could it defend its position as an open systems company, the newsletter asks, anticipating that Sun may find itself in the embarrassing position of being one of the only significant RISC systems vendors not offering Windows NT on its systems.
