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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!petesk
- From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly)
- Subject: Re: Why we shouldn't bash MS Employees (and other thoughts)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.080733.6980@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 08:07:33 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <76507@ut-emx.uucp> <5ljml--.xtifr@netcom.com> <92212.112511ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
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- In article <92212.112511ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Andrew T. Robinson <ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
- >>4) It's only an OS guys, this isn't a religious issue.
- >
- >Well, it becomes religious to me when I invest my company's money--at
- >this time to move to OS/2--in an environment where my choice may make
- >me smell like roses or excrement in less than a year.
-
- Hey, it's only money ;) ;) ;)
- Choosing a good product is one thing. But the Religious battles
- are being fought by those who've already purchased a system. They
- then spend all of their time trying to prove that it's better, whether
- it is or not. It looks bad if you choose, find you've chosen incorrectly,
- and then correct your mistake. It looks far worse if you choose, choose
- incorrectly, and then try to fool yourself and other into thinking you've
- chosen correctly. You end up with a poor system, and nobody believes you
- anymore.
- >
- >I find OS/2 to be conceptually superior to Windows or Windows NT.
- >However, if there was an alternative in the price range I'd take it.
- >I'm sick of the infighting between IBM and Microsoft. I tend to
- >blame Microsoft more than IBM because I have a long happy history
- >with Big Blue (well, maybe not all happy :-). But the fact is, both
- >IBM and Microsoft are actively participating in the generation of
- >an extremely unstable high-end OS market, in which the wrong descision
- >could cost a lot of money in the next year or so.
- OOOOHHH, but the excitement that an unstable OS market causes ;)
- >
- >Rather than railing at IBM or Microsoft, I'll ask them to stop the breast-
- >beating and merge the NT/OS-2 streams before one or both really screw over
- >their adherents. And someday pigs may fly out my.....
-
- The market has never been all that stable. There have been many versions of
- UN*X fighting for years. Along with VMS, MACH, VM, MVS, bla bla bla.
- Heck, if they make OS/2 POSIX compliant, then all you have to do is make
- your apps POSIX compliant, and I doesn't really matter which OS you have.
-
- >
- >Andy
- >
- >PS -- Windows NT is a dung heap. Through it out before it stinks
- > up the place any further.
- >
- >PPS -- The preceding was a gratuitous inflamatory statement, and does
- > not necessarily refelct the opinions of the author.
-
- Ohmygosh, I almost blew a gasket. ;)
-
- petesk@microsoft.com
- My Opinions.
-
-