[Ti] Apple's True Market Share!

[Loren Schooley]

On 12/12/02 12:52 PM, "Chris Olson" <chris at astcomm.net> wrote:

> Mark C. Langston wrote:
> 
>> That's not entirely accurate -- there is a private beta period.  Early
>> Access is closer to a gamma test than beta test.  Still, this is a
>> normal part of their development cycle.  There will be a final version
>> of OS 9;  this isn't it.  It does, however, contradict the previous
>> poster's claim that Sun has given up on x86 development.

> 
> We are a Sun support center, and I beta test everything that comes down
> the pipe.  Solaris on x86 is not a fully funtional, production
> environment operating system, nor will it ever be.  It is a
> learning-point port only, for those who can't afford, or won't buy the
> native hardware.  It has the problems that Apple would have if they
> tried to port to x86

Yeah-what he said!