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

[John Vottero]

<tomarsin2015 at comcast.net> wrote in message 
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> I found out that windows is anything the customer wants it to be. Need
> a data center version  just get that good olde magic maker and write
> data center windows version. Need a home business version that old
> magic maker does wonders. The sad part of this is, we (the public/
> companies) are buying it hook, line and sinker. What ever you need
> windows to be, thats what it will become. I am shooked that one of
> those single places and Microsoft haven't came up with Windows 2010
> server for lonely hearts.

What?? You don't remember MicroVMS?  One of the great things about OpenVMS 
is that you can develop software on a tiny MicroVAX or Alpha Workstation or 
Itanium and deploy the code to gigantic clusters of powerful servers.

To fault Microsoft for taking a similar approach is just absurd.