[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[P. Sture]

In article 
<d75d3d4b-acf8-4b92-a8ba-1d1c21386137 at v36g2000yqv.googlegroups.com>,
 John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On Nov 9, 11:00 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > When you go back and read documents like this:
> >
> > http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/bell.htm#Transitio...
> >
> 
> With the greatest possible respect to the author, and even bearing in
> mind the interview is in 1995 (a couple of years after NT first
> emerged) what on earth is this quote about:
> "Until Microsoft, I though DEC had the greatest engineering
> organization, but Microsoft is substantially better."

I think you have quoted out of context there, John. The full paragraph 
plus the first 2 sentences of the next one:

"The more I¹ve gotten away from large organizations, the more I feel 
that this organizational hierarchy has to be totally supportive up and 
down. It starts with the CEO and it goes down from there. Why am I such 
a fan of Microsoft?  Look at Gates, Allchin, Maritz Š go down the line 
of people running the company.  Everyone link in the management chains 
is filled with great people. Why I like them is they¹re smart, they know 
their business, they know technology and they know what they¹re doing 
and they¹ve got this mission of creating this industry and wanting to 
put it out there. And I haven¹t seen that at other companies. Until 
Microsoft, I though DEC had the greatest engineering organization, but 
Microsoft is substantially better.

DEC is doing a lot of interesting Internet technology and products right 
now[11] and they an advanced development group in the bay area, but it 
is managed by an incompetent. I don¹t see that they are going to figure 
out how to do it as a business."

To me he is talking about the _organization_ there, not the final 
products.

-- 
Paul Sture