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Article #73526Apple and Open Systems
From: five minutes
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1991 10:32
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1991 10:32
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Interesting article in the latest PC Week: "Bad news for companies touting the open systems line: very few believe them. "That's the conclusion from US analyst Forrester Research. Forrester asked Fortune 1000 companies to rank a list of computer suppliers in terms of "openness" on a scale of one to five: no company scored higher than 3.4 -- a dead heat between Sybase, Microsoft and "PC Clones". "IBM and Apple came bottom of the poll with scores of 2.5 and 2.1 respectively." The statistics given in a bar chart are: Sybase 3.4 Microsoft 3.4 PC clones 3.4 Banyan 3.3 Oracle 3.3 Novell 3.3 Sun 3.3 Informix 3.2 Hewlett-Packard 3.2 Compaq 3.2 NCR 3.1 AT&T 3.0 Digital 2.9 Tandem 2.8 Stratus 2.8 IBM 2.5 Apple 2.1 I used to describe Apple as "the IBM of the 1990's". Looks like a lot of people agree with me. mathew [ An aspiring Mac owner who refuses to buy one because of Apple's monopolistic practices. ]
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,3c4dc01c6dae3883 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10e148,90e28986f4d84d8e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10e148,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-09-05 23:40:40 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (five minutes) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Apple and Open Systems Summary: Apple are perceived as more monopolistic than IBM Keywords: NOT! Message-ID: <95qs85w164w@mantis.co.uk> Date: 5 Sep 91 10:32:43 GMT Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 41