From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:f09343.592ccb{at}harborwebs.com...

> Maybe they are in the US but that's possibly just coz the US is behind on
> mobile phone adoption & tech.

Perhaps but I don't see it happening, it's like a light bulb.

> Really? If you want to (say) install DB2 then you need KSH installed. Time
> after time the scripting shell is item 1 on a s/w req list as all the
install
> scripts are written in one of them.

I dunno, the shell example is too niche, think back to when CD drives were
first becoming popular and how long it took before vendors could assume
most people had CD drives.

> My'self the first thing I do on solaris is check for bash & if not
installed,
> see if I can get it installed. If it is then setting the shell to bash is
the
> first line of my env setup script.

Yes but the fact that the first thing you do is check for bash proves that
it's not reached critical mass yet where you can just assume most people
have it already.

Geo.

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