[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <paul.nospam-5992C6.18554110012010 at pbook.sture.ch>,
	Paul Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 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.
 

I can't think of anytime that could have been true.  I have worked
for more than one company who's internel networking would have made
DEC look a kid playing in a sandbox.  And, consideringhow badly they
missed the whole PC revolution I am sure there were a lot of Fortune
100 companies running fully MS shops long before DEC would have made
the connection.

bill

-- 
Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton   |
Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>