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- From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
- Subject: Re: net.views -- which vendor is the most open?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.144050.6025@datascope.com>
- Organization: Datascope Corp.
- References: <2d5yf7b@rpi.edu> <BuBx63.H64@vcd.hp.com>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:40:50 GMT
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- In article <BuBx63.H64@vcd.hp.com> robertt@vcd.hp.com (Bob Taylor) writes:
- >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
- >
- >Bob Taylor
- >HP Vancouver
- >
-
- Actually, IBM seems to qualtify for both spots. Some parts of IBM are
- committed to open systems and others are against it. That is the problem
- with having a very large corporation.
-
-
- ---Jay Davis
-
-