[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:06:50 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article
> <5602b547-0f60-472d-afa2-68c6c6ca8c8a at b18g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>,
> Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
>> But there is the point of view where business types see the competition
>> as "the enemy" (hey, we don't want "them" to see "our" designs, and
>> crap like that).
> 
>    These were in days when DEC was hurt by it's foolish self-image as a
>    hardware manufacturer, ignorant of the fact that it was superior
>    software that was selling thier systems.
> 
>    While it was true when DEC was born, it was not true by the time they
>    got far into VAXen, and DEC never grew out of that misconception.

And DEC had more software than is commonly realised.  I had never heard 
of BASEstar until I came across it at a customer site.  That site had 
also previously used some DEC supplied software for sub-assembly 
component tracking (there was a legal requirement to keep details for 14 
years in case of safety recalls).  That software was not cheap and would 
have contributed to DEC's bottom line.

But the same lack of focus happened elsewhere in the industry too.  One 
place I worked at seemed obsessed with hardware.  They had completely 
forgotten that what had made them so successful in the first place was 
supplying complete hardware and software solutions, with most of that 
software being written in-house.



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Paul Sture