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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:	The Digital way of working

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONELON

Created:	Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5321
Total number of notes:	139771

4128.0. "Microsoft/Compaq/Tandem do clusters." by DPDMAI::WILSONM () Tue Sep 19 1995 13:16

    A quote to help position the Digital/Microsoft alliance:
    Steve Ballmer (#2 at Microsoft) in the magazine VARBusiness,Sep.1,1995;   
    
         ..."The number one thing we need is scalability to thehighest-end
         hardware that UNIX supports, such as clustering, which we are doing
         with Compaq and Tandem."..(speaking of NT vs UNIX)
    
     So do we have engineers at Compaq and Tandem to directly give them our
     clustering technology, or is that Microsofts part of the "alliance"?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4128.1	Is this live or Memorex?	ANGLIN::BJAMES	I feel the need, the need for SPEED	`Tue Sep 19 1995 14:06`	8
	So much for "Our Alliance" with Microsoft. I guess they have figured out the model in the VAR business for selling software (like NT and WIN95): Where there is volume and velocity, there is much money to be made. Jeesh what's going on here? Mav
4128.2	Balmer is an _______	DECWET::WHITE	Surfin' with the Alien	`Tue Sep 19 1995 14:24`	11
	Personally I think the guys is a j*rk... Don't worry, he is famous for this kind of thing...I was once in the MS datacenter listening to him tell a bunch of Compaq execs that MS was going to run thier business on PowerPC AS/400's... Could of heard a pin drop. Reality is that he spouts off a lot...then has to 'take back' what he said. -Stephen
4128.3	Why don't we some of our own...	CX3PST::DEIMOS::D_DONOVAN	SummaNulla(The High Point of Nothing)	`Tue Sep 19 1995 15:00`	5
	Now that I keep hearing that SUN� has invented "network computing" why don't we start now to ensure that we can lay claim to having invented "scalable cluster computing?" JMTCW
4128.4	scalable what?	MBALDY::LANGSTON	our middle name is 'Equipment'	`Thu Sep 21 1995 10:09`	5
	99.99% of the population, I'd guess, would not have clue what "scalable cluster computing" is. Now maybe "64-bit computing..." More might be able to figure out what it is, but would they care?