[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> FrankS schrieb:
> 
>> Some time last year, maybe longer ago than that (aging memory), I 
>> bumped into a sales rep that worked in my Digital field office.  The 
>> conversation got around to Digital's demise and he commented that the 
>> big reason was that Digital never embraced Unix.  So, even now there's 
>> at least one sales person (I suspect there are hundreds more) that is 
>> still under the impression that Unix was the future and OpenVMS was a 
>> dead horse.
> 
> And what's wrong with that?
> Apart from that DEC indeed embraced Unix, just not consistently enough.
> First with Ultrix, later with DEC Unix, which sold more Alphas
> than VMS.
> Or maybe he meant they should have promoted the Alpha with Unix
> rather than NT?
> 

Or, maybe VMS is what made DEC what it at one time was, and by moving away from 
it destroyed customer's confidence in DEC, and VMS, and perhaps that is why DEC 
is no more ??

I really don't understand this attitude that Unix is so great and inevitable. 
Seems mostly a self fulfilling prophecy rather than based upon merit.  I guess 
if you say something enough, people might start believing it.

In fairness, I have to observe that DEC management was less than helpful.