Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!apollo!hpway!mishkin From: mishkin@jrst.apollo.hp.com (Nathaniel Mishkin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: The Hardy Few Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 04:13 GMT Sender: root@apollo.HP.COM Distribution: comp,world Organization: r_d Lines: 24 I hate to be cynical, but I just don't know how to react to the discussion about the DM and about the lack of DOMAIN on the 9000/700. It's really nice to hear about how people like the DM and DOMAIN but I'm afraid it's just very late in the game. The world decided that standard is better than better (and that even better in the form of superset functionality is suspect). The world also decided that cheaper (and better yet, free) is better than better. The rest -- you must be standard and we're not going to let you make enough money (at least in software) to do "better" as well as "standard" -- pretty much follows on. With the DCE, we're trying to carry forward as much "better" as we can. As to the DM (with its odd mixture of the incredibly useful and the incredibly clunky), I can only hope that after a while, given the fact that X is so widespread and that the usability of what's out there on top of it is so bad, someone will build something that has the "incredibly useful" parts of the DM. Not HP's opinions; just mine after a long haul. -- -- Nat Mishkin Cooperative Object Computing Division / East Hewlett-Packard Company mishkin@apollo.hp.com