[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <k10hah$s54$4 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> People left because DEC quit responding to customer needs.
> 
>    People needed the price/performance they were getting in UNIX/RISC
>    workstations.

Some did, not all.

>    I still recall the UNIX afficonado who complained so much when we
>    got VAXstations and made him do C and X11 programming on VMS.
> 
>    On the next project he got UNIX.  And he HOWLED!
> 
>    See, he'd never actually used UNIX.
> 
>    And we got our first Alpha running VMS.  But our customer complained
>    in the meantime, when we did another project on Ultrix-MIPS, that
>    we weren't using a "real UNIX".  In their minds that was HP or Sun.
> 

Not Linux, huh, or .... AT&T   :-)