As I indicated, I suspected that it was at least exaggerated. Anyway, similar stories are definitely true, I've been on the customer side of them myself - admittedly involving smaller numbers ...
Good story, though - I wonder who "wrote" it :-) -----Original Message----- From: Joey K Tuttle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 28. maj 2009 09:39 To: Chat forum Subject: Re: [Jchat] More APL (was: No More APL) At 09:04 +0200 2009/05/28, Morten Kromberg wrote: >There is a story (probably exaggerated) that when the board of Hitachi saw >the bill from I.P.Sharp associates for the port of SHARP APL to Hitachi >mainframes, they (after receiving the necessary medical attention) wrote to >Ian Sharp and said "PLEASE send us an invoice for a million dollars >immediately!". And IPSA was a relatively successful commercial operation for >a decade or two. Morten, Without commenting further, I can assure you that the above bears no resemblance to any reality..... - joey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
