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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: IBM RISC System/6000  AS/400 (actually a diversion on the topic)
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Date: 5 Mar 90 17:20:03 GMT
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In article <103335@teemc.UUCP>, wayne@teemc.UUCP (//ichael R. //ayne) writes:
>In article <00933154.7F943660@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>>
>>Yes, but how long are you going to continue to pay for VMS, get SCREWED by
>>Digital on VMS licensing agreements, and pay for boxes which are two to three
>>times slower for the same dollar amount? 
>>
>>Not to mention peripherials which cost significantly more than what you can
>>find in an "open" systems such as Suns.  
>
>	Posted by someone who has NO understanding of the power of marketing.

Actually, I do understand marketing; up until now, DEC has been able to get
away with their policies because they offered roughly equilivant 
price/performance specs; RISC boxes running Ultrix are going to change the
way DEC and IBM does business. It isn't going to happen overnight, but the
RS/6000 is going to slowly chip away at AS/400 sales and the DECstation 3100
will poach off VAXstation 3100 sales. 

>I know of companies that do that and persist in telling you how much
>better off they are than if they had to use that "horrible Unix operating
>system".  

As UNIX becomes more popular, software like NeXT step and SunTools will
be used to frost the user-hostile UNIX interface, so no one except a programmer
will have to see the nastiness of a C-shell.