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Article #55931Re: Hmmm... what *is* this world coming to?
From: Stanislaw
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 00:00
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On 20 Apr 1997, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > > I almost fell off my chair this week when I read the following quote in > Tuesday's "Australian" computers section: > > "We are seeing our end users wanting to get away from the proprietary > nature of Unix" (this was in reference to switching towards NT clustering). > > Admittedly, it was a quote by someone the "Australian" interviewed, > (a Mr. Blaine Owens, director of BankTec) and not attributable to the > "Australian" itself. Just a remark, since when a manager, director or minister has to know what he is talking about? Ref. aus.politics. Stanislaw. > > Nevertheless, with guff like that, you do have to wonder about the quality > of people that the newspaper is talking to. > > If anyone is interested in looking at it yourself, the article starts on > page 1 of section 3 of the "Australian" dated Tuesday 14th April, 1997. > > > ...Paul. > > > -- > Paul Dwerryhouse paul@xenu.ee.mu.oz.au > "The growing use of e-mail, not to mention Web-page publishing, threatens to > reverse the trend towards illiteracy among the supposedly educated without at > the same time improving their spelling". -- Michael Swaine, Dr. Dobb's Journal > >
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