[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing]

In article <72fekdFpmcofU2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>In article <gptds3$q8$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>,
>	m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
>> In article <72eqiuFpiqmpU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill
>> Gunshannon) writes:
>>>  
>>> Comparing OS/2 to VMS is like comparing a Yugo to a Porsche.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm not so familiar with cars (especially US ones),
>
>Ummm...   Neither of those is American.
>
>> so I guess in this analogy OS/2 would be the Porsche:
>> it's lean, fast, has an own distinctive GUI 
>> and runs on my Thinkpad which I can take
>> with me anytime I want to.
>
>And to think people here think I am the one who is anti-VMS.
>
>Porsche's are anything but lean.  They do perfoem well, but then,
>depending on your criteria, so does VMS.  OS/2 was a lame attempt
>to mimic Microsoft.  

If by "lame attempt to mimic Microsoft" you mean "joint IBM/Microsoft attempt
to develop a superior Windows/DOS superset, which Microsoft lost interest in
after they hired Dave Cutler", then yeah.

>It had as much chance of success as Linux does today.

Enormous, you mean, with increasing deployments from handheld to 
desktop to data center?  

-- Alan