[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> Facts:
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> 1) In the past we saw DEC gracefully transition from PDP to VAX by being very open with their plans "and" communicating those plans to their customers.
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> 2) In the past we saw DEC gracefully transition from VAX to Alpha by being very open with their plans "and" communicating those plans to their customers.
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> For some reason, the transition from Alpha to Itanium was a lot less transparent and poorly communicated.  HP's plans for Itanium and whatever comes next (like Project Odyssey) seem a joke in that they require their customer to engage in "Sherlock Holmes like" detective work at third-party web sites. If HP was doing a better job of communicating with their current customer as well as the public (which they should treat as potential future customers) then these third-party sites wouldn't have much to publish.
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> Just my 2-cents worth
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> Neil Rieck
> Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
> Ontario, Canada.
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html
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When Compaq bought DEC there was a very big change in attitude.  You see, DEC had 
"customers", while Compaq had "sales".

The more you think about that, the more you realize just how much the customers lost.