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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!polari!lampi@polari.online.com
- From: lampi@polari.online.com
- Subject: Re: NeXT on HP700
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.172959.10747@polari>
- Summary: But not DomainOS
- Organization: R Squared, Redmond, WA (206) 883-3116
- References: <9209031414.AA02108@cel.cummins.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:29:59 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article <9209031414.AA02108@cel.cummins.com> philip@cel.cummins.com (Philip D. Pokorny) writes:
- >In the August 31, 1992 issue of Open Systems Today there is an
- >interview with Lew Platt, HP's president-elect. Quoting from the
- >article:
- >
- > Platt said HP, under certain circumstances, would
- > willingly incorporate industry-standard software from
- > Microsoft and even IBM into its products. Regarding
- > NT, Platt said HP would wait to see how the product is
- > received in the market before deciding whether it would
- > be beneficial to have NT running on PA-RISC. If NT
- > gains market share, "there is nothing whatsoever that
- > would prevent us from porting that OS to our platform
- > and we've already had discussions with Microsoft about
- > this," said Platt.
- >
- But not an operating system HP already knows about and "supports".
-
- > Platt also said that HP would consider incorporating
- > into its own products, technologies that emanate from
- > Taligent, the joint IBM-Apple object-oriented
- > programming project.
-
- But not technology that is already present in its own non-HPUX products.
- >
- > HP, for its part, is trying to make its PA-RISC
- > architecture more prevalent in the industry by
- > licensing it to vendors HP does not view as
- > competitors. One such company, Platt said, is Next,
- > which is currently looking for a RISC technology on
- > which to base its computers. But Platt declined to say
- > whether there had been any direct negotiations with
- > Next. Next also declined comment.
- >
- I find it interesting that HP would partner with a company that has yet to
- sell as many workstations as Apollo, port their code to PA-RISC, and ignore
- their own DomainOS customer base.
-
- (gripe, grumble, moan die-hard Domainiac :-)
-
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