[Info-vax] Oracle-RDB question

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <z8hEm.12355$U5.177776 at newsb.telia.net>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?=   <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
> 
> And what on earth has "DEC" to do with this ?

Wasn't it DEC who invented alpha?
They should have had the strongest interest in it.

> DEC was long gone when Alpha was shut down.

In fact DEC themselves shut it down when they sold it to intel.

> It realy dosen't matter whos founds. 

For those who have to cough up the funds it certainly matters.
Compaq was even less a chipmaker then DEC.

> The question
> was where Alpha had been today with the same founding
> that have been put into Itanium.

Which is hypothetical because neither DEC nor Compaq
would have had that funding. Itanic would be long dead
as well, if it weren't for the deep pockets 
(and inflated ego's) of intel and HP.