[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 04-01-2010 08:04, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article<4b4138f2$0$269$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=<arne at vajhoej.dk>  writes:
>> On 03-01-2010 19:36, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 03-01-2010 05:13, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>>>> Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
>>>>>> And MS supply free readers for doc/xls/ppt as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And they have publicized their formats as well, so
>>>>>> other can implement them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So the difference is ??
>>>>>
>>>>> that M$ didn't do this until their monopoly
>>>>> was completed. About fifteen years ago
>>>>> you'd had a hard time to view those proprietary
>>>>> formats properly on anything different than M$ Windoze+office.
>>>>
>>>> True. But you would have the same problems with Lotus, WordPerfect
>>>> etc. products.
>>>
>>> ISTR that there was/is WordPerfect for VMS. I'm quite certain that it
>>> was available about ten years ago. I'm not sure about now.
>>
>> More like 15-20 years ago.
>
> and still available.

But I would expect them to measure sales in new customers per decade.

Arne