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Article #83Re: Requiem for OpenDoc
From: joseph
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:00
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Erik Funkenbusch wrote: > > In article <333035DE.89B@ibm.net>, djlarue@ibm.net wrote: > Exchange was released at version 4. There were several iterations of exchange > used internally to MS. Exchange was first designed to be used by the > microsoft network. > > It got plenty of testing internally and externally before it was released. MS had promsied to ship Exchange for years as it languished -- and it was not used internally at MS during this long period of vaporware existance. MSN never existed until years later. Your assessment about Exchange is limited to a small fraction of it's lifetime as a MS strategic vapor product. My eariiest reference puts MS Exchange as vaporware in *1988* when Lotus's Manzi approached Mr. Gates to see if he was interested in buying their new NOTES product. Gates refused citing his Exchange project due real-soon-now. The NYTimes did a story on MS in their Sunday Magazine last year. It had a 900 lbs gorilla on the cover for those who remember. It documents that MS was vapor talking about Exchange even back then in 1988. -- Joseph Coughlan Replies are welcome at joseph_coughlan@otter.montery.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ee4f,6baa961c420547b0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ee4f,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,6baa961c420547b0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public X-Google-Thread: 11307a,6baa961c420547b0 X-Google-Attributes: gid11307a,public X-Google-Thread: 1138ec,6baa961c420547b0 X-Google-Attributes: gid1138ec,public From: joseph <josco@ibm.net> Subject: Re: Requiem for OpenDoc Date: 1997/03/22 Message-ID: <3334CD87.1451@ibm.net> X-Deja-AN: 227652835 References: <5gcpte$291g$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net><5gcpte$291g$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <5ghtkv$lan@server1.erinet.com> <5gim25$2l@dopey.magg.net><5gcpte$291g$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net><5gcpte$291g$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <5ghtkv$lan@server1.erinet.com> <5gim25$2l@dopey.magg.net> <5gjjal$1k5$1@ralph.vnet.net> <5gjt3i$34a@dopey.magg.net><5gcpte$291g$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net><5gcpte$291g$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <5ghtkv$lan@server1.erinet.com> <5gim25$2l@dopey.magg.net><5gcpte$291g$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net><5gcpte$291g$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <5ghtkv$lan@server1.erinet.com> <5gim25$2l@dopey.magg.net> <5gjjal$1k5$1@ralph.vnet.net> <5gjt3i$34a@dopey.magg.net> <5glvgi$1bri$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <5gmiuh$bfd@dopey.magg.net> <332f4c0c.0@usamrid.isd.net> <333035DE.89B@ibm.net> <3332c367.0@usamrid.isd.net> Organization: none Reply-To: josco@ibm.net Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,bit.listserv.os2-l,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.org.team-os2