RE: interesting take on Olsen's "no reason for any individual tohave acomputer in his home"
From: Main, Kerry (kerry.main_at_hp.com)
Date: 11/28/04
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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:29:25 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jmfbahciv@aol.com [mailto:jmfbahciv@aol.com]
> Sent: November 28, 2004 7:35 AM
> To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
> Subject: Re: interesting take on Olsen's "no reason for any
> individual tohave acomputer in his home"
>
> In article <41a5569a$1_3@127.0.0.1>,
> "Richard Tomkins" <tomkinsr@istop.com> wrote:
> >I am Richard Tomkins.
> >I worked in the Digital Equipment Corporation manufacturing plant in
> Kanata,
> >Ontario Canada, from 1986 until 2001.
> >My jobs were, Manufacturing Support Technologist, Product Engineer,
> Process
> >Engineer, Trainer, Consultant and CSS Technology Architect.
> >
[snip ..]
> >
> >We paid a Royalty to Microsoft on every computer sold if it
> could run a MS
> >OS. About 40% of the product was shipped without a Microsoft
> product, but
> we
> >still paid the Royalty. Take it or find another Windows source was
> >Microsofts argument. Of course, there was no negotiation on
> this. When the
> >Netscape guy said that dealing with MS was like the
> Godfather, one day you
> >expect to wake up with a horses head in your bed, we all nodded with
> >experience.
> >
> >Windows NT development on Alpha was paid for entirely by Digital and
> >employed Digital staff.
>
> No, it wasn't. I'm beginning to think that there were at least
> two groups who were doing NT development that didn't know about
> each other. Apparently this was a common management trick of
> Palmer's. Why waste money having one group do something when
> you can have n groups doing the same thing.
>
> Having two ongoing NT developments would explain your perception
> that it was Digital-only and my perception that it was Gates-funded.
>
Nope - Richard was right.
All of the Alpha Windows NT OS daily porting, testing, packaging,
marketing etc (*.*) was paid for and delivered by Digital resources in
Digital facilities. Microsoft received an OS license fee for every Alpha
server shipped if it was capable of running Windows NT. As I understand
it, the same went for the other vendors like IBM and MIPS before they
also determined it was not the business they wanted to be in and dropped
Windows support on their RISC platforms.
Microsoft did do some of the Alpha NT Backoffice LP porting / testing
like SQL Server, Exchange etc, so perhaps that is what you are thinking
about?
Regards
Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
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