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

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 5/4/2018 1:02 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> 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.

Right.  But they started out with nothing.  Tablets were pretty much dead
in the market until the iPad came out, now everybody is using one.  Apple
created the market out of nothing and now owns it.

DEC used to do that too, but DEC also tried to have products for every
sector of the market.

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

I don't know about that.  There are still lots of servers being sold.
They are smaller margin items, but still pretty good.
--scott

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