[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Paul Sture]

In article <7r13mqFptaU1 at mid.individual.net>,
 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> 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.
> 

This was when MS first introduced Exchange and before it was commonly 
adopted. DEC were hoping to make a lot of money providing consultancy 
services.

-- 
Paul Sture