Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!media01!pkr From: pkr@media01.UUCP (Peter Kriens) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: IBM and Digitalk's Smalltalk /VPM Keywords: IBM Digitalk Smalltalk ParcPlace Message-ID: <1580@media01.UUCP> Date: 3 Dec 90 16:48:45 GMT References: <1990Nov20.193618.23602@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <1990Nov21.174406.16610@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <5467@taylord> Reply-To: pkr@media01.UUCP (Peter Kriens) Distribution: comp Organization: Mediasystemen, Netherlands Lines: 13 > 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. > Joseph Pallas responds > Perhaps you've never heard of a small company called Microsoft? :-) > joe Isn't that company exactly the perfect illustration of that statement? Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com