[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Paul Sture]

In article <7qsjigFu3mU1 at mid.individual.net>,
 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (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.
> 

Wasn't DEC's boast at one time that they had the largest MS Exchange 
server network? Going back to 1997 they also routed their "internal" 
phone system over their own worldwide network.

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Paul Sture