[Info-vax] Ken, where r u now? Was: Elephants...

[P. Sture]

In article 
<0c3d6b9b-e916-4716-b3eb-e769200efade at 41g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
 etmsreec at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> This really is the key to the whole thing in my view - users and
> customers now buy the application, not the OS.  Application
> availability kills the platform and the operating system.  Tru64 was a
> better Unix but HP-UX had the applications.  OS/2 was better than
> Windoze but Windoze had the applications.  If my company's software
> was on OS/400 then that's what my customers would be buying.  At the
> moment, it's on VMS though so that's what my company's customers buy.

I also recall seeing a pretty comprehensive list of available 
applications for Sun, back in 1989.

-- 
Paul Sture