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From: abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Auto-trol support for VMS
Message-ID: <1990Jun13.012108.24477@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 90 01:21:08 GMT
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From article <5516@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, by ereiamjh@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Tom B. O'Toole):
> In article <1208@auto-trol.UUCP> garhow@auto-trol.COM () writes:
>>"We have adopted Unix as our strategic future operating system direction for all
> Neet "strategy" d00d!
>   Well, I for one am glad that I don't use and in fact have never heard of 
> your product, because I for one am sick of having Unix shoved up my ass by 
> vendors. Blah blah blah unix is so great blah blah blah here is is blah blah 
> too bad...

Well, for this company, it may very well be the 'right' direction. The sheer
economics of supporting multiple, very different, platforms may no longer
be feasible for them. And lets face it, VMS is probably not going to be
a major player in the desktop engineering workstation market. Too expensive,
too little performance/$$, etc. It is just sheer economics for these
companies. They also kinda have to go in the direction that their customers
are going too. And alot of companies are moving to Un*x in some
form for engineering workstations. I use Un*x alot too, but I also have
a VAXstation running VMS. I like both, but if I had to cough up the
$$ to buy a workstation, I'd probably have to get a Un*x one
because thats where the performance is. How long will it be before
DEC gets a VMS workstation to around 18-20 VUPS? And how much will it cost?
Probably won't be competetive with the DS5000 or the RS/6000...


-- 
Art Stine
Sr Network Engineer
Clarkson U
ABStine@CLVMS.Clarkson.Edu