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From: joshua@athertn.Atherton.COM (Flame Bait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Future of Apollo
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Date: 2 Jun 89 21:07:59 GMT
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Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In an article FERGUSON@TMASL.EXXON.COM writes:
>My Apollo sales rep has been emphatically telling me I should buy a 10000,
>because 1) the future of the product is so bright, and 2) No other
>company can give you the stability and support that HP/Apollo can.
>
>What's wrong with this picture?
>What do others think about this?

HP/Apollo has four major OS's (3 versions of UNIX and AEGIS) and four
major hardware platforms (HP's 68K and SPECTRUM, and Apollo's 68K and
PRISM).  Clearly, some platforms and OSs are going to go, and HP people
are going to choose what lives and what dies.  They own the company,
after all.

For these reasons, I believe that quote number 1 above is wishful thinking.

Quote number 2 is just sales talk.  Ignore it.  Sun, DEC and IBM can all
provide the about same level of stability and support (DEC and IBM a little 
more stablity than Sun or HP/Apollo).

Interesting question:  Which is technically better PRISM or SPECTRUM?

Joshua Levy
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