[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bob Koehler]

In article <kuxZr.1214$Yw.425 at fx20.am4>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> writes:
> 
> Very much so. If you consider that the basic function of an operating system
> is to provide services to applications, then the more generic and abstract
> you can make those services, the more applications will be able to make use
> of them...

   When I buy an operating system, I get or purchase a lot of tools to go
   with it.

   I've never had to roll my own compilers.  I've never had to roll my
   own browser.  None of my DBMS using coworkers evcer had to roll thier
   own DBMS.

   I don't like rolling my own RMS.  I don't like using piles of trash
   someone else cooked up, that are supposed to be word processors.

   One of the "services" that often comes with an OS is a collection of
   common code, used by large numbers of customers, with small numbers
   of bugs.