Interview with David Korn
David Korn received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from RPI in 1965 and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1969. After working on computer simulations of transsonic air foils, he switched fields to computer science and became a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories in 1976. He is the creator of the KornShell, a command language for the UNIX environment, as well as UWIN, an X-Open library for Windows NT and Windows 95. In 1984, he was inducted as a Bell Labs fellow. He currently works for AT&T Research in Florham Park, NJ and graciously agreed to take a few moments and answer a few questions for our readers.
Open Addict: You've developed major Unix software, such as the Korn shell, and Unix/Windows interoperability software, such as UWIN, so do you see the future of computing as a blended Unix/Windows world or will Unix and Unix-like systems eventually win the desktop?
David Korn: The desktop will likely be mixed with browser like interfaces and GUI's dominant. I think that Microsoft will continue to dominate this market with Mac/OS second. Linux will emulate Microsoft to keep a foot in this market. However, I think that Linux will be dominant player in the server market especially as more of the UNIX vendors migrate to Linux.
OA: What do you think about the leading open source Unix-like systems, Linux and FreeBSD, and do you use either of them at work or on your personal systems?
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