Verizon IS a ms shop, they use win nt. Used to use os2. They changed
over early last year.
Smitty
On Saturday 30 June 2001 23:09, you wrote:
> So, if M$ dishonestly claimed that NASDAQ is a MS Shop then it also
> follows that they should also accept the blame for the failure.
>
> Choices have consequences?
>
> BTW: Who is responsible for the Verizon systems failure this morning?
> I sure hope M$ claims Verizon as a M$ Shop as well!
>
> :-) Doc
> :
> > >So, if what you say is factual, then ms's brag about being used by
> > > nasdaq is hot air - a gross overexaggeration of importance. Would you
> > > agree?
> >
> > In a word, yes. That is the nature of market forces and the free
>
> enterpise
>
> > system. Although they did not lie, their is a lie of omission. Another
> > example of this would be SAP's deployment of MS. MS stated that after
> > seeing MS' scalability in the Enterpise SAP saw the benefit of porting to
> > SQL. MS was quick to capitalize on this coup. What MS neglected to
>
> mention
>
> > was that MS footed the entire bill - Why wouldn't SAP port to another
> > platform if it actually makes them money and costs them nothing?
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