It's hard to think of Unix as the underdog in the network operating system market place, and yet time and time again that's how it's characterized in the trade press.
In this age of internet scams and computer virus hoaxes, it's getting gosh-darn difficult to decide whom you can trust any more.
Back in May, Network World Canada told you about how the emerging market for Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s 64-bit IA-64 chip (code-named Merced) was dividing itself into four Unix camps -- the leaders of which were Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Digital Equipment Corp.