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Posted Sep 13, 2006 19:07 UTC (Wed) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888)In reply to: A link to the orginal article: by nix
Parent article: Windows will beat Linux threat, say academics (TechWorld)
Although Oracle won't run on bare hardware, it pretty much treats the OS as a souped up BIOS and does its own filesystems, process monitoring, shared memory management, etc. layered on top of the native OS. Then there are all the Oracle applications that live on top of the RDBMS.
Almost the same with Autodesk -- they have a ton of apps that live atop AutoCAD, along with their proprietary file formats and own dialects of programming languages (Autolisp, eg).
Perhaps "platform" would be a better word than "OS" in the grandparent's context.
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Posted Sep 14, 2006 11:30 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Well, yes, all flexible-enough systems turn into platforms eventually. (Emacs, Mozilla...)