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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-10-10 09.23, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 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.

Yes, we already know that you totally believe that Intel suddenly 
boosted their processors by several hundred percent in just a few months 
by their own innovations, that just looked like what DEC had already 
done. It's all a conspiracy of some sort to try and smear Intel's fine 
name. And every time you drag up the same pointless argument that they 
didn't get convicted. You can the same same thing about all of Wall 
Street right now. None of them have been sentenced to anything, so they 
must all be innocent.

DEC was in no way near collapse, nor doomed, even in the mid 90s. A very 
good read is Gordon Bell's analysis that he wrote as an appendix to 
Edgar Schein's book. Very interesting, and very damning for Palmer.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/CGB%20Files/DEC_Is_Dead_Bell_Appendix_Schein_Book.pdf

But, being the person you are, Michael, I'm sure you will just claim 
that it's all wrong, Bob Palmer was a brilliant guy, Olsen was an idiot, 
DEC was already broke, Gordon Bell knows nothing, Cutler is an ignorant 
thief, and noone else but you know or understand the simplest things. :-)

	Johnny