> i was going to say that having Plan 9 ported to your platform seemed > like a bad omen for your company, but equally valid is the observation > that being a platform vender (other than Apple) is bad for your > company.
ibm seems to be doing ok. but sequent, the original home of ken's fs kernels, is not, having been swallowed by the aforementioned ibm. another platform vendor to fail recently which has been mentioned here is sicortex, the guys who made the low-power supercomputers. - erik
