Gavin Scott wrote:
 
> Alfredo wrote:
> > As a contrast, witness Microsoft.  Whatever one may say about Microsoft
> > software, one has to hand it to Bill Gates: He puts 110% of his commitment
> > behind his products and, not surprisingly, he manages to turn them around
> > from pieces of junk to tolerable products that, eventually, become market
> > leaders.
>
> OS/2?
 
Well put, Gavin: Microsoft dumped OS/2 onto IBM's doorstep like an
abandoned child in a '30s melodrama. Perhaps OS/2 is the MPE of the Intel
world (although it doesn't have the history of applications, maturity, or
reliability of MPE -- but then, how much can you hope for on the Intel
platform?)
 
3000 customers should take note of another change in HP management last
week: Bernard Guidon, appointed by Win Roelandts last year to oversee all
HP computer business not PC, Network or LaserJet-related, is now a special
consultant to Rick Belluzzo. HP says that Bernard's new job, which he'll
perform from his native France, doesn't weaken HP's commitment to Unix.
It's just a coincidence that CSY General Manager Harry Sterling now
reports directly to Dick Watts, who's fresh from the NT frontlines. And
CSY is now all a-buzz over making the HP 3000 co-exist with NT, after
dancing with Unix systems for the last two years.
 
No one can doubt there's a new skirt in town. Customers might keep that in
mind the next time they're told an operating environment that's different
from their own (read: not MPE) will solve all their problems. Down here in
Texas, we like to "dance with them that brought you." It can be a lot less
costly date.
 
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Ron Seybold
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