At 1:40 PM -0400 9/25/00, Ken Hirsch wrote:
>This is nothing particular to MPE. Other proprietary operating systems have
>either disappeared or are declining: Unisys, Wang, Data General, DEC, Prime,
>etc. I'm tempted to quote the Highlander tag: "In the end, there can be
>only one." Well, it might be more than one, but it's not going to be many.
>It can be predicted from computer economics.
Excellent reasoning. The question still remains: Why did Windows (a
proprietary system) thrive? Because of the energy that Bill Gates put
behind Windows. Bill Gates NEVER sat there, just waiting for "something"
to happen or for "somebody" to tell him what to do. Bill Gates is a
proactive leader (reactive folks are just wannabe leaders :-)
>Is it too late for MPE? Yes.
Go back a few years, when Windows was a mess (some people will disagree
with me and say that Windows is STILL a mess, but I won't enter into
such discussions :-)
How do you believe Bill Gates *felt* then? How do you KNOW Bill gates
*acted* then? Where would Windows be today had Bill just played dead?
There is a huge difference between "leader" and "chairman, CEO, president,
manager, or whatever". Everyone wants to be known as a leader. Very
few people *act* as leaders. Bill Gates acts as a leader. Steve Jobs
acts as a leader. Good for them.
Bottom line, as I wrote a few days ago:
Always looking forward to the future (which somehow depends on
how much work we do today, because good things tend to NOT fall
out of the sky by themselves)
So, only the managers at HP can answer the question "Is it too late for MPE?"
As Shawn Gordon just wrote, "the real question is why do we, as users, have
to do this, or talk about it at all?"
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