Unix standards are just hot air, a recent International Data Corp survey reports. It finds that 63% of European corporate users have not yet decided whether to use X/Open Co Ltd’s Portability Guide-3 brand, while a further 76% remain doubtful of Posix standards, and have little interest in the Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Computing and Distributed Management Environments, or Unix International Inc’s Atlas technologies. 53% of those questioned had no policy on a specific Unix version: 75% had made no graphical user interface choice. More than a third of users found standards an obstacle to the effective use of their Unix systems.
