[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yeah, sort of like, "Joe's Bar next door has better drinks, you don't want to 
drink at my bar.  Guess the bar would also go out of business, huh ?