[Info-vax] RealWorldTech on Poulson

[Bob Koehler]

In article <paul.nospam-7D942E.18160206072011 at pook.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 
> One trick I've seen successfully employed was to insist that the kit 
> bought be able to run a piece of software which is only available on 
> your desired platform.
> 
> "Yippee we got a VAX instead of an ICL or Nixdorf" (EU funded project).
> 
> I'e also seen "forced" purchases end up not able to do the job they were 
> supposed to do and ending up with a solitary programmer uselessly 
> employed, just to save face about the expenditure involved.

   In a shop with one PDP-11, a customer chose Perkin-Elmer over VAX
   because they were looking at about the same performance, and "We 
   don't want to be a DEC shop."

   They paid big time in terms of programmer cost.