[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bob Koehler]

In article <5035048a$0$1100$c3e8da3$e074e489 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:

> So, if VMS had great ideas but insufficient budgets to complete projects
> such as Spiralog, and this has been going on since the Palmer era, does
> anyone seriously believe that it can catch up when it is over 20 years
> late ?

   Spiralog wasn't just incomplete, it was seriously broken.  UNIX is
   10 years older than VMS, still shows it, and folks actually think 
   of it as modern.
 
   But UNIX never suffered through low price/performance, lack of hype
   (aka stealth marketing), and executives directing customers to go
   elsewhere.