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Dearly Departed — Companies and Products That Didn't Make It
Esther Schindler writes "Some products just didn't deserve to die. But they did, because the companies made bad business decisions. Dearly Departed, revisits several favorites — from minicomputers to software utilities — and mourns the best and brightest that died an untimely death. What companies or products would you add? Which of them deserved to go?"
Bush's presidency is a prime example that what people vote for is not always what is best.
The network pc was the answer.
The reason is then became not hte answer was that Microsoft changed the EULA to make them more expensive than a pc. Shoot if I were an IT manager I did not want to pay $11,000 per desktop for support either! Yes they were that much because windows is a POS and licensing costs. IF someone makes only 35k a year then I am paying more than a third of their salary on just their workstation.
MS Terminal server was an overpriced example to make thick pc clients look cheaper.
ALso this article failed to mention that Microsoft killed most of the 19 innovative products. Lotus 123 and wordperfect died because ms bundled ms-office with their illegal monopoly and IT wanted to use one vendor and one standard over quality. Those 2 things killed most of the other products besides bad management for the rest.
VMS also was the best operating system ever made. If Berkeley did not chose Unix for BIND and Sendmail then things would be alot different and Unix would have not taken over the internet server market. VMS is alot lot cheaper at the time with agroup of 20 or more pcs vs terminals. Again it was the need for standards and illegal practices by ms is what brought the pc to the table. Then the apps followed.
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