[Info-vax] The Open-Sourcing Discussion, Yet Again

[Paul Sture]

JF Mezei wrote:

> On 13-12-12 09:02, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>
>> Is the company that acquired DECdocument (and others) still alive,
>> and selling the product ?
>
> Didn't Digital buy DECdocument back from Touch Tech (was it them that
> got it in first place ?)
>
> I still recall Palmer proudly announcing the sale and the fact that DEC
> would now be using some new document software on Windows, only to be
> forced to backtrack when confronted with the reality that DEC Document
> was used extensively within DEC and converting all the docset would cost
> megaucks and yield 0 payback.

I don't know about DECdocument, but DCPS was another product which was
sold off then came back into VMS Engineering,

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