Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!ucsd!ucbvax!CONCOUR.CS.CONCORDIA.CA!goldfish From: goldfish@CONCOUR.CS.CONCORDIA.CA (-- Paul Goldsmith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: ADUS conference news Message-ID: <9010151904.aa17376@concour.cs.concordia.ca> Date: 16 Oct 90 00:04:02 GMT References: <901015.16343798.030626@RMC.CP6> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 Before you get out your hankies and start crying over HP's costs for putting OSF onto an Apollo, the Apollo DN4500 was demonstrated running MACH (which is the OSF kernel) at the Montreal Computer show. (I didn't see it myself, however another analyst saw it there.) Once the kernel runs, any other excuses for not putting the OS up are STRICTLY MARKETING. If in fact Apollo/HP plans on stranding the owners of the second most popular workstation out in "unsupported land" because they refuse to market an operating system which has already been demonstrated to run on these machines, then your purchasing agents should consider protecting their future investments (and you) when they plan their medium term acquisition strategies. The same cost decisions which motivate HP to drop Domain OS should be motivating you to protect yourself against manufacturers who don't support their products. This is a knife which cuts two ways. -- Paul Goldsmith (goldfish) (514) 848-3031 (Shirley Maclaine told me there would be LIFETIMES like this)