[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00A88C4D.DC70B50A at ssrl.slac.stanford.edu>,
	winston at SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing) writes:
> 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.

I think it much more likely they lost interest when they saw themselves
developing a competitor in the hands of the one company who likely could
knock their butts right out of the business.

And some people don't think Cutler is really god come back to earth.

> 
>>It had as much chance of success as Linux does today.
> 
> Enormous, you mean, with increasing deployments from handheld to 
> desktop to data center?  

I must have missed the announcement.  When did Linux push MS out of the
market?

bill

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