Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!becker!bdb From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: IBM and Digitalk's Smalltalk /VPM Keywords: IBM Digitalk Smalltalk ParcPlace Message-ID: <57805@becker.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 90 03:00:22 GMT References: <5467@taylord> Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 18 In article pallas@eng.sun.com (Joseph Pallas) writes: |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? :-) They are large indeed, but they are also of the "walking dead"... -- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario a /i/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `\o\-e UUCP: ...!uunet!mnetor!becker!bdb _< /_ "I still have my phil-os-o-phy" - Meredith Monk Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com