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Actually NeXT flubbed enterprise sales because they didn't ensure that their OS was fully POSIX-compliant. POSIX-compliant OSes didn't need special waivers in o
by shrubble 2y ago
Actually NeXT flubbed enterprise sales because they didn't ensure that their OS was fully POSIX-compliant. POSIX-compliant OSes didn't need special waivers in order for the Federal govt to buy them; that is why the CIA and NSA were NeXT's main customers, because no one requires spy agencies to buy COTS software.
If Jobs had spent just 2 engineer-years or less of engineering time to fix POSIX compliance, their market would have been many times larger; something HP's workstation division and Sun were very happy about, I am sure!
- pjmlp 2y agoFor NeXT, as Apple, the POSIX/UNIX story has always been the same as on Windows, a means to bring the ecosystem into the platform, not to make software there and deploy it elsewhere. There is even a surviving video from a NeXT meeting, where Steve Jobs talks about this strategy.