Re: You'll never guess what HP advertised

From: reb (natron_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 05/17/04


Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 16:49:13 +0100

On Thu, 13 May 2004 06:27:01 +0200, Karsten Nyblad <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:
>
> Even if you buy operating systems large market share from big software
> vendors, there is a chance that the operating system becomes EOLed some
> time in the future. Just look at VMS. It was a very successful
> operating system for many years. HP might stop supporting it some time
> in the future.

But probably not before Microsoft stop supporting every version
of MS Windows that is currently installed (just providing a bit
of perspective).

Roger Barnett



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