Re: Apple?

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From: Joe Ragosta
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:39

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In article <40q88m$rqr@blackice.winternet.com>, jdege@winternet.com (Jeff
Dege) wrote:

>     My next-door neighbor is VP for IS at a Fortune 500 company, and they
> will only buy Unix for the desktop.  Sure, it costs a bit more for 
> wordprocessors and spreadsheets, but they spend most of their IS budget
> on custom and semi-custom DB applications, and developing such under
> Unix is an order of magnitude less expensive than developing them on
> the glorified program loaders that Apple and Microsoft call operating
> systems.

OK. Please tell us which Fortune 500 company buys only Unix for the
desktop (no Macs or Windows boxes).

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple?
Date: 15 Aug 1995 15:39:03 GMT
Organization: Graver Chemical
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