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From: pallas@eng.sun.com (Joseph Pallas)
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Subject: Re: IBM and Digitalk's Smalltalk /VPM
Keywords: IBM Digitalk Smalltalk ParcPlace
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Date: 27 Nov 90 17:02:42 GMT
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In <5467@taylord> taylord@spock (Don Taylor) writes:

>As far as I can recall, everytime a big company
>like IBM or AT&T has embraced a small company's product as their standard then
>it has been the kiss of death (or at least of long and lingering illness) for
>the company and the product.

Perhaps you've never heard of a small company called Microsoft? :-)

joe