[Info-vax] Out with Hurd, in with OpenVMS

[Richard B. Gilbert]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> I think that is a vast oversimplification.  DEC was a company out of 
>> control!  There was a corporate "vision" of becoming the new IBM.
> 
> Started in mid 1980s. This was the main cause for DEC refusing to see
> PCs and the other minicomputer makers as competition, they only saw IBM
> as competition. And this partly explains why Olsen went for the 9000
> MAINFRAME instead of the other projects.
> 
> 
>> Palmer just made the funeral arrangements!
> 
> Yep, that is all he did.
> 
> One expects a CEO to be more than a funeral director (unless your name
> is Palmer or Capellas).
> 
When the company has stopped moving and has started to stink, common 
decency requires that we give last rites, burial, etc.

> Palmer could have changed corporate culture.

Sure he could, but it's not something that can be done overnight!
It takes time and time was in short supply!

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