[Info-vax] In the top 25 tech disasters

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> pos wrote:
>> "John Smith (not the one @ HP)" <a at nonymous.com> wrote in message
>> news:51fa7$495ce500$cef8b0f3$876 at TEKSAVVY.COM-Free...
>>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/21/03FE-25-tech-failures_5.html
>>>
>>> 10) Itanic
>>>
>>> 6) Carly
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, it's not a complete list and it is biased - for example it leaves 
>>> out
>> GQ
>>> Bob and some other large tech flops.
> 
>  > also missed out Digital UNIX (designed to supplant OpenVMS)
> 
> I would not call DEC OSF/1 alias Digital Unix alias Tru64
> a technical disaster.
> 
> With my limited knowledge it was a good Unix and did sell
> pretty good for some years.
> 
> Arne

I had some limited contact with Digital Unix; a course on System 
Administration AIRC.  I don't think it was any better, or worse, than 
anyone else's product.

To be successful, you have to be BETTER, or CHEAPER.  Cheaper was a 
notion absolutely foreign to Digital.  Better was possible but DEC 
either failed to achieve it or failed to market it properly.  We all 
know that marketing was not one of DEC's strong points.