Re: net.views -- which vendor is the most open?

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From: Trip Martin
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 19:43

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In <1992Sep9.191159.29861@cc.ic.ac.uk> vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau) writes:

>In article <1992Sep06.033204.4890@utoday.com>, wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner) writes:
> -- 
> --        Which computer and/or operating-vendor has the greatest
> --        commitment to open systems? Which has the least? Why?
> -- 
>Clearly, IBM. it is still the greatest computer vendor by a factor of five or 
>so, and it tells us it is totally commited to open systems.

Greatest?  I hardly think so.  Largest, certainly.  Incidentally, isn't
IBM the company one of whose executives was quoted as saying "You don't
want to get locked into open systems."?
-- 
Trip Martin
night@acm.rpi.edu
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Trip Martin
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