> Peter, you're old enough to remember when and why the term "Open Systems"
> was coined, and you must see the parallels between Microsoft's behavior now
> and IBM's behavior then.
cifs looks pretty open to me, and microsoft's business acumen impresses
me a hell of lot more than ibm's.
> The open question is whether the press and certain segments of the
> IT industry will wait until Microsoft is as powerful as IBM ever was before
> they wake up and demand that Microsoft permit competition.
wry laugh -- transarc has had the distributed file system marketplace
virtually to itself for years -- had it and squandered it.
> Let me be clear: our filesystems products are (for all but casual use)
> better *now* than the products Microsoft is shipping *now*, and despite
> Microsoft's hints and insinuations, our filesystems products will be better
> than the products that Microsoft ships "WinEver". When I stop believing
> that, I'll change my email address.
no one on this list will argue with you about the technical supremacy of
transarc's products. so what? it's your marketdroids that suck. to me,
this looks like an endgame.
peter
