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Ahhhh. I forgot about the proliferation of PC peasants out here. Dougy,
Fujitsu STILL runs a MVS compat system... and we wont discuss where DEC
Alpha multi-processors competed etc. Yes yes yes, IBM had its serious
competitors. HDS (Hitachi Data Systems) built the m/frames I grew up on - at
the GIO in NSW Aus. And, to cut a long boring story short, there are others
STILL. IBM streamlined to CPU clusters, and gave up their storage etc devs.
Disbelief will give you nothing. Been there, done that.
Steve Hudson
Principal Technical Writer
Wright Technologies (Aus)
steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au
(612) 9518-1822
The best way to predict the future... is to create it!
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas S. Bailey (AL) [mailto:dbailey -at- commandalkon -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:51 PM
To: steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au
Subject: RE: Respect
> Go ask IBM. Their mainframe sales slid backwards for years, until they
> actually listened to their customers, and rewrote the
> manuals. Sales picked
> up.
Ah, but what kind of competition did they have? If they were the "only game
in town", as they were for a long time, the sales increase wouldn't be
relevant to "buying A instead of B".
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