[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 09-01-2010 18:59, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

Even if DEC was only #2, then they sure had a position back in
VT220/VT320 and VMS 4.x/5.x days.

Arne