[Info-vax] Linux support

[Scott Dorsey]

David Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
>> Probably the
>> biggest factor in the demise of Alpha was Microsoft dropping
>> support for it.
>
>I don't buy that, because I've always felt that VMS's strength was not 
>on the desktop.

That's the point.  If you wanted a desktop machine, you could get an Alpha
with Windows.  if you wanted a server you could get an Alpha with VMS or
with OSF/1.  Take Microsoft out of that equation and you can't sell so many
Alphas and the economies of scale collapse.
--scott

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