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Subject: Re: Mail to non VMS machines
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 02:27:28 EST
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From: amdcad!phil@BERKELEY (Phil Ngai)

I would like to address this "bigger they are the less responsive
they are" propaganda.

The bigger they are, the more problems they have to solve. They
have an incentive to come up with one all encompassing solution
rather than little ad-hoc solutions here and there. If they didn't,
then they would be flamed about how all their stuff doesn't play
together.

A company that makes N different systems doesn't have N times as
much support, they have N^2 times.

Sure a motorcycle can beat a train for delivering one package.
But try sending 500 tons of coal by motorcycle.

It is hard for me to believe I am defending DEC when our VAX
sat, non functional, on our computer room floor for two months
because they couldn't make it work. But here it is.