[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

David Froble wrote:

> When Compaq bought DEC there was a very big change in attitude.  You see, DEC had 
> "customers", while Compaq had "sales".


>From what I was told, it wasn't hard for DEC to confince Pfeiffer of the
value of the customer relationshup softwre Digital had (something which
Compaq lacked).

Renember that Pfeiffer wanted Compaq to become an enterprise company and
wanted Alpha etc.  It is when he was outsted than the goodwil that we,
as VMS customers had seen, vanished.

The gas pump commercials were from Pfeiffer,s time, not from the time
when Compaq had Curly as interim CEO. (and when Compaq gave up tryinfg
to find a replacement for Pfeiffer, Curly became permanent CEO whose
mandate was to find someone to buy Compaq.