[Info-vax] One wonders why people bet their companies on Microsoft based products...

[John Vottero]

"BillPedersen" <pedersen at ccsscorp.com> wrote in message 
news:24aed94d-39ea-418a-8e57-33a04c440452 at s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com...
> The current debacle of T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger (what a name) and
> the loss of personal data on some 800,000 Sidekick PDAs is without a
> doubt another example of why people should only bet their businesses
> on systems time tested and shown to be reliable - OpenVMS being the
> obvious candidate.  The story can be found here:
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=8306

You can't fix stupid.  The rumor mill says that the upgrade of a Hitachi SAN 
failed which is when they discovered that there wasn't a backup.  The 
boneheads running this place could screw up anything, even OpenVMS.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/11/sidekick-failure-rumors-point-fingers-at-outsourcing-lack-of-ba/