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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: ADUS conference news
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.064450.2850@alphalpha.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 06:44:50 GMT
References: <901015.16343798.030626@RMC.CP6>
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In article <901015.16343798.030626@RMC.CP6> DCS05@RMC.CA writes:
>OSF-1 would not run on these platforms. Supposedly there are huge financial
>costs involved in porting to the older (no - not older, current!) product
Ha, ha.  I very strongly suspect that OSF/1 will be running on at least
some of the DN machines before it runs on the HP ones - internally at
Apollo at least.  This is a nonsense decision.  I give it about a
quarter before they change their minds.  The only question is whether
anyone will be listening when they do.

>HP's perrogative - this is a free enterprise system. They will have to
>live with the results.  In our case that will probably mean the
>cancellation of all DN product purchases. We will look at the 400 series
Exactly.  Why would you buy a machine that has been announced as having
only one more software release left for the rest of eternity?  When
they see what this does to the sales figures for the DNxxx maybe someone
will wake up.

Well.  Now we know one thing for sure.  HP didn't buy Apollo for the
market share!
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.