Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Killer Micros Message-ID: <1989Nov26.142026.26642@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 26 Nov 89 14:20:26 GMT References: <3257@husc6.harvard.edu> <46500089@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY Lines: 15 In article <46500089@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >> It's taken DEC 20 years [...] *starting* to supply corporate data centers, > This must show something about the mentality of corporate data centers. It has always been a truism that nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. It's probably true today that nobody ever gets fired for buying DEC. To most people in corporate America, making any kind of decision (from which million dollar mainframe to buy to which brand of toilet paper should go in the executive john) means taking the path which is least likely to get you fired. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network" Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com