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From: janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Taking stock...
Message-ID: <2011@titan.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 17 Feb 89 01:00:53 GMT
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In-reply-to: bzs@ENCORE.COM (Barry Shein)

In article <8902162247.AA28231@multimax.encore.com>, bzs@ENCORE (Barry Shein) writes:
>The point is obvious, organizations which have built their empires by
>providing MIPS are, in most cases, doomed...

Most MIS groups have built their empires on accounting and services, not
on MIPS.  You're still going to need someone to work out the corporate
licencing on Lotus 1-2-3, not to mention storing the backup tapes.

Bill