[Info-vax] Encrypted TCP/IP network printserver spooled printing for OpenVMS (secure-IPP?)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/4/2018 1:02 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> Apple is one of the most heavily invested companies around.   DEC was
>> once invested in creating new interconnects and new technology.  VAX,
>> Ethernet, DECtalk, DECnet, etc.  Apple is large enough and with a sales
>> volume and revenues which allows them to design and build and ship
>> products at a scale that the folks at DEC could only dream of, too.
>> The Apple Arm cores, the T-series security chips, the use of seL4,
>> then-new connectors such as lightning (and which still works better
>> than the standardized USB-C), and software integration and frameworks,
>> too.  DEC had a history in most or all of those same areas.  Where DEC
>> differed then from Apple now was in user interface design skills and in
>> the ability to clearly communicate and to stay on message; DEC didn't
>> do so well in those areas in later years.
> 
> This is true.  The thing is, Apple wants to sell systems to end-users
> directly, onsie-twosie.  They don't want to deal with big corporate
> customers and so they don't build systems for big corporate customers.
> They find a niche where they can do well, they make systems for it, and
> they don't try and compete across the board with a full range of systems
> that do everything the way DEC did.
> 
> Apple doesn't sell servers like the X-Serve anymore.  They don't sell
> machines with serial ports.  They don't sell lots of things.  Because
> those things don't fit their business model.

It is worth noting that their iPhone and iPad "niche" sells
more than all server sales world wide.

And that their profit per year in that "niche" is probably in the
same magnitude as the profit for server sale for a decade.

Arne