Smitty wrote:
>
> Verizon IS a ms shop, they use win nt. Used to use os2. They changed
> over early last year.
> Smitty
>
That explains the reputation for bad service.
Ed
> 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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