Oops (marketing vs. demerit)

[Daniel R. Levy]

> Before
> trying to dump on DEC a la IBM, however, keep in mind that IBM sells primarily
> to business customers, who don't know a goto from a RAM chip, whereas DEC
> sells primarily to technical installations and research institutions.

Oops.  Someone pointed out to me that DEC's biggest VMS market is commercial,
not technical.  Seems hard to believe in the face of IBM's stranglehold on that
market, but I'll take it at face value.  Darn all those insurance companies
and banks, they had to go buy DEC and make me look like a fool. :-)

To the best of my knowledge:  my point still stands to the effect that DEC has
a helluva lot of VMS VAXes out there in technical fields, and that there are
far more VAXes in those fields running VMS than are running the UNIX operating
system, if a survey in a not-too-ancient _DEC_Professional_ is to be believed.

(Though on behalf of AT&T, I hope this will evolve to be the other way around,
or even better, VMS VAXES will eventually be outnumbered by 3B4000s or their
successors running UNIX System V [dreamin' on...] :-) ).
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