On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Tarjei T. Jensen wrote:
>
>Sun did well in the early years because DEC screwed up big time. DEC said
>to their big customers that they would not keep the DECstation line once
>the Alpha was in place. Result: Sun Sparc all over the place. One must
>belive these people were allergic to money.

Tell me about it. We're heading away from being a heavy Tru64 Unix shop.
Whenever I had to get pricing on new AlphaServer hardware, it was like
pulling teeth. This was prior to the Compaq and H-P merger. I have no idea
how the situation is now.

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