7 Feb
2011
7 Feb
'11
8:48 a.m.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Shoppa, Tim <tshoppa at wmata.com> wrote:
I mean as a DEC fan I understand the sweetness of a
VS8000 as the
odd man out (a personal workstation with BI!), but it hardly seems
important in painting the broad strokes of the industry.
No argument from me.
Heck, BI in itself is nothing more than an oddball
historical footnote
looking backwards, I mean, there was very little third-party stuff
Made for BI (present company excepted).
Having been through the process of developing a 3rd-party BI product
(COMBOARD-BI), I am not shocked that few vendors felt the commercial
need to jump through all the hoops. In our case, we migrated our
products to the BI bus because our customers were upgrading their
hardware. In the end, I'm not sure we never recouped our investment
(hardware was only a portion of the total system cost), but we did get
the product to market and we did sell a few. We still sold several
times as many boards for Qbus machines as for BI machines,
unsurprising given the ratio of the two types of machines out in the
real world.
You wouldn't know it by the front page of the
Digital Review at the time! Oh Charlie Matco loved the leaks.
There certainly was a lot of noise in the trade rags - the last roar
of a dying species, no doubt
-ethan