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- From: david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George)
- Subject: Re: net.views -- which vendor is the most open?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.082623.6706@osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: OSF RI Grenoble
- References: <BuBx63.H64@vcd.hp.com> <1992Sep10.024324.17106@decuac.dec.com> <BuCytz.1IG@world.std.com> <7286@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:26:23 GMT
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- In article <7286@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- |> In article <BuCytz.1IG@world.std.com> geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) writes:
- |> >The last open system I used actively was a VAX 750;
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- |> there's a company building open systems by this definition: IBM. The
- |> System/3x0 hardware is documented completely There are even cloners who
- |> work from nothing but those books.
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- Yeah, and third party suppliers of both DEC VAX and IBM equipment have faced
- lawsuits from the original suppliers. Normally because they were doing it better and cheaper.... hardly seems that open.
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- You could mention Sun with it's SPARC chipset, but wait - Sun has instructed
- its dealer network not to handle third party products which compete directly
- with its product range.
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- "Open Systems" like "Mission Critical Apps" seems to be MIS Manager speak for
- "Cover Your Arse Systems When Things Go Wrong". Well it did say Mission
- Critical Open Systems Application on the box !
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- David.
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