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

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In article <4b42917c$0$271$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>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.

I will not comment on current sales or current customer figures.  I'm only
the piano player.

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