[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00c3e815$0$23466$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> The "VMS on the desktop" dream is not that a few hundred run VMS
>> on desktop but that VMS would actually compete in the desktop
>> market.
> 
> Digital has the largest number of desktop office automation "seats" back
> in the 1980s. The largest corporate email system. Digital had it back
> then. It squandered it.

Not sure I would buy that.  IBM had PROFS and a lot of places used
it.  For example, when I got here while the academics used VMS Mail
they also had PROFS and the admin folks were all PROFS.  Then, there
was Martin Marietta which was all PROFS.  I'm pretty sure Boeing
was a PROFS shop too a that point in time.  I can think of a lot
more PROFS shops I had contact with than VMS shops.  And they tended
to be larger and have may times as many users.

bill

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