[Info-vax] Life after Digital

[Robin Fairbairns]

 Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
>> Michael Kraemer wrote:
>> 
>>> JF Mezei schrieb:
>>>
>>>> HP chose to NOT fix the problems of VMS (lack of marketing)
>>>
>>>
>>> the problem of VMS is lack of market rather than lack of marketing.
>> 
>> 
>> Market is somewhat influenced by marketing.
>
>Somewhat, but not essentially.
>A single company can't turn the tide by "marketing"
>(whatever this diffuse term means).
>Take a look at that ancient OS/2 vs Windows example.
>And as another example,
>no marketing would convince people to return to analog cameras.

indeed.  but perhaps one might consider the situation of the
manufacture of tanks.  no-one is going to buy a light-weight aluminium
tank unless the manufacturers of armour-plated steel tanks seem to
have disappeared from the market.

similarly, if you hide the light of a robust operating system, it's
bound to lose ground to the lightweight (linux) and the joke (widnoze)
offerings.
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge