[Info-vax] Steve Jobes [was: Apple says ...]

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
> 
>>http://www.businessweek.com/1997/17/b3524142.htm
> 
> 
> The following 2 paragraphs define DEC's problems really well:

(snip)

Internal competition between x86 and the homegrown chip,
and competition between low-end/high-volume and low-volume/high-profit
are issues all computer makers have to face, these are hardly
unique problems.

More interesting is the paragraph stating

"But behind Alpha's poor market showing lies a broader business lesson: 
New technologies, no matter how whizzy, have an increasingly tough time 
finding acceptance against well-entrenched competitors ..."

which means that no "marketing" effort could have helped Alpha (and DEC)
out of its misery.

And even more interesting, though off-topic, is the paragraph about
Cutler being caught in the act stealing DEC's property.
It's beyond me why people find this acceptable (and even praise him
for allegedly inventing WNT as VMS++, thus doing more damage
to VMS than Palmer ever could),
whereas intel still is being bashed for allegedly copying Alpha,
although there was never any evidence.