[Info-vax] The Future of Server Hardware?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-10-01 07:03:54 +0000, Michael Kraemer said:

> 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.

Which implies that the markets have changed and have moved on with 
their requirements and expectations, though they might be doing the 
same general results, and might have the same names, and might even 
involve some of the same businesses.    More succinctly, that those old 
markets are gone.

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