[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/15/2020 3:50 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rorp0g$jc$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
> Dorsey) writes:
>> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>>> In article <i1cslrF4e2jU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
>>> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Laugh if you will, but, actually, there is a business case for desktop
>>>> to data-center.
>>>
>>> Back when DEC used that slogan, it were a very successful company.
>>
>> This is true, but they were also selling totally different and incompatible
>> systems for the desktop and the data center.  In fact, they had several totally
>> incompatble desktop systems competing against one another, which I suspect
>> is why it stopped being so successful.
>>
>> They were not promoting one system from desktop to data center, just one
>> vendor.
> 
> Many places had VMS workstations on desktops booting as satellites from
> a much larger VAX or Alpha.

Sure.

But that was a tiny fraction of desktop market.

Probably more developers and system managers than
end users.

Remember that the desktop market as such is counted in
hundreds of millions of users.

Arne