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- From: robertt@vcd.hp.com (Bob Taylor)
- Subject: Re: net.views -- which vendor is the most open?
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:03:38 GMT
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- Trip Martin (night@acm.rpi.edu) wrote:
- : In <1992Sep9.191159.29861@cc.ic.ac.uk> vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau) writes:
- :
- : >In article <1992Sep06.033204.4890@utoday.com>, wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner) writes:
- : > --
- : > -- Which computer and/or operating-vendor has the greatest
- : > -- commitment to open systems? Which has the least? Why?
- : > --
- : >Clearly, IBM. it is still the greatest computer vendor by a factor of five or
- : >so, and it tells us it is totally commited to open systems.
- :
- : Greatest? I hardly think so. Largest, certainly. Incidentally, isn't
- : IBM the company one of whose executives was quoted as saying "You don't
- : want to get locked into open systems."?
-
- Actually, IBM has always struck me as being the least interested in
- open systems - traditionally, most of IBM's systems were "anti-open" -
- you had to buy the hardware, sw, support, etc. all from IBM. The
- FTC and competition has forced them to be open, but for the most
- part they seem to be open only when forced to be. Many other companies
- have been using "open systems" as a major strategy for years, while
- IBM is relatively new at the game. Whether Microsoft is any more
- open is open for debate, but IBM certainly isn't.
-
- : --
- : Trip Martin
- : night@acm.rpi.edu
- : --
- : Trip Martin
- : night@acm.rpi.edu
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