[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[Michael Kraemer]

Stephen Hoffman schrieb:
> On 2012-09-30 20:59:40 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply said:
> 
>>
>> Yes, gone for DEC and its successors, of course.  However, your original
>> quote made it sound like DEC made money with customers who produced
>> something (like telephones one actually dials, or printing with movable
>> type) which essentially doesn't exist anymore.
> 
> 
> The past means zilch here, save for any predictive values that might be 
> derived.

Well, unless I've missed something,
production lines are still controlled by computing systems.
Likewise, academia still buys computing systems.
So the market opportunities are there, always had been.
DEC lost those two decades ago simply because their
products weren't attractive any more.