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  4. From: night@acm.rpi.edu (Trip Martin)
  5. Subject: Re: net.views -- which vendor is the most open?
  6. Message-ID: <2d5yf7b@rpi.edu>
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  9. References: <1992Sep06.033204.4890@utoday.com> <1992Sep9.191159.29861@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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  11. Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:43:56 GMT
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  14. In <1992Sep9.191159.29861@cc.ic.ac.uk> vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau) writes:
  15.  
  16. >In article <1992Sep06.033204.4890@utoday.com>, wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner) writes:
  17. > -- 
  18. > --        Which computer and/or operating-vendor has the greatest
  19. > --        commitment to open systems? Which has the least? Why?
  20. > -- 
  21. >Clearly, IBM. it is still the greatest computer vendor by a factor of five or 
  22. >so, and it tells us it is totally commited to open systems.
  23.  
  24. Greatest?  I hardly think so.  Largest, certainly.  Incidentally, isn't
  25. IBM the company one of whose executives was quoted as saying "You don't
  26. want to get locked into open systems."?
  27. -- 
  28. Trip Martin
  29. night@acm.rpi.edu
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  31. Trip Martin
  32. night@acm.rpi.edu
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