[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Mon Jan 11 12:02:41 EST 2010


In article <0182b35f$0$11369$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Paul Sture wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Yes. That is when they converted All-in-1 to Exchange. But since DEC had
> already begun to downsize at that point, it had fewer Exchange seats
> than it had ALL-IN-1 7-10 years earlier when DEC was at its peak in
> employee numbers.

And when did DEC's number of employees ever exceed places like IBM,
Martin Marietta (the whole company, not just the division I worked
in which I expect in itself exceeded the number of people DEC employed)
or Boeing.

bill

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