[Info-vax] In the top 25 tech disasters

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 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.

I don't think Tru64 was significantly better or cheaper than
AIX or Solaris.

And Tru64 sold decently AFAIK.

But obviously HP wanted only one Unix.

So ...

Arne