Re: VMS, etc. (was Proprietary Systems... from midrange-l) -- MIDRANGE-NONTECH

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Subject: Re: VMS, etc. (was Proprietary Systems... from midrange-l)
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:41:17 -0600
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From: Jim Damato <jdamato@dollargeneral.com>
> It could just be my AS/400 bias, but I don't have confidence in a host of
> third-party layered products providing environment functionality.  To me,
> the death of proprietary systems is the death of stability in computing.

In a thermodynamical sense when something is stable it is also dead.
To be alive means to be evolving.

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