From kriger@statcan.ca Mon Aug 14 09:47:27 1995 Received: from stcgate.statcan.ca by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA11436 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Mon, 14 Aug 1995 19:43:50 +0200 Received: (from root@localhost) by stcgate.statcan.ca (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA19528 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 13:42:04 -0400 Received: from stcinet.statcan.ca(142.206.128.146) by stcgate via smap (V1.3) id sma019504; Mon Aug 14 13:41:37 1995 Received: by statcan.ca (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA03938; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 13:47:27 +0500 From: kriger@statcan.ca (George Kriger) Message-Id: <9508141747.AA03938@statcan.ca> Subject: NT & .2 .4 and so on. To: sc22wg15@dkuug.dk (wg15) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 13:47:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1286 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Gentlemen/Ladies -- The July 31st issue of Computerworld published an article on P.12 entitled "Feds declare NT 'Open system'; Unix takes a hit" The article referred to a ruling from the US General Services Administration (GSA) Board of Contract Appeals. The ruling upheld a $188 million award by the Coast Guard to Unisys for "workstations and servers running Windows NT". According to a sidebar which accompanied the article: "The Coast Guard's award to Unisys sought compliance with some 20 Posix Standards, including the following: - Posix.1 - Posix.2 - Posix.4" The article went on to state that (in the opinion of a "federal procurement expert") Microsoft could now "credibly" bid on some $4.3 billion in federal contracts coming up in the next 12 months. Unfortunately, the article was a bit loose with its terms (e.g. "compliance" & "Posix" instead of "conformance" and "POSIX"). Therefore, I can't help but wonder if they got other details correct. I'm posting this note in the hopes that someone will clarify the details. Specifically: 1) Were .2, .4 and so on indeed required for the contract? 2) How these requirements were met by NT environment? (I am aware that NT claims .1 conformance.) -- George Kriger (kriger@statcan.ca) Canadian POSIX Working Group