"It's snake oil, absolute snake oil"
964[jak]-Robert Halloran
rkh at mtune.ATT.COM
Fri Mar 18 23:28:56 AEST 1988
In article <183 at mcf.UUCP> shan at mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani) writes:
>
> Just when you thought the latest round of VMS vs. UNIX wars
>was tapering off, now comes this :-). I just came across the latest issue
>of Computer Systems News, YAITR (Yet Another Industry Trade Rag) and saw
>the above qoute. I append the following lines taken from the March 14 issue
>for your amusement:
> --- start of quote --
>
> Asked to comment on the recent uproar over the AT&T and
> Sun Microsystems Inc. Unix development alliance, Olsen
> without mentioning particular companies, likened some vendors
> of Unix products to "snake oil" salesmen and said the claim
> that Unix will resolve incompatibility problems within
> multi-vendor networks is "a naive idea."
> -- end of quote ---
Of course, Ken Olsen also made the following comment in 1977:
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
:-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-)
Bob Halloran
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