[Milsurplus] old software

[chuck maurer]

Ray,
I am sorry about your problem with microsoft, but you
have been caught in death throws of a large ugly dying
obsolete company.  They are trying to find a way to
survive in a UNIX dominated world and with their
LONGHORN project delayed until at least 2006, maybe
2007 they might not make it.  Even APPLE's primary
operating system is standard UNIX with a really great
user interface.  And OSX has been APPLE's lead OS for
the last 18 months.

Your best attack would be to show management what they
will loose with this approach and show them a good
alternative to the obsolete Microsoft OS structure.

The third largest super computer in the world is 1100
Apple UNIX X-Servers hooked in a ring.  Even IBM and
DELL are shipping UNIX as an alternative to Microsoft.
 You could probably port your old APL code to any
number of current UNIX technology boxes.

Chuck

--- Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:

> The big software upgrade. For years at the
> university we used Dec Vax
> software, the hardware is always improving but the
> same old software
> with improvements has been around from the beginning
> of time.  People
> often don't realize the incredible amount of
> software that was written
> twenty or thirty years ago that is still running
> today.
> Now our friends at Microsoft will save us from the
> terrine of old but
> working software, PeopleSoft is the future.
> Microsoft's  new software
> is a web base environment  that is touted to replace
> much if not all of
> the old Vax, Unix , APL ( anyone remember that?) and
> other  database and
> information management software. All you need is an
> almost unlimited
> supply of money, to pay to upgrade all your servers
> and workstations and
> more money to pay the People Soft consultants to
> write the temples and
> merge your "legacy" files, along with telling you
> that all your
> hardware that you just bought is too old and
> everything will be fixed in
> the next revision. So I think it's only a matter of
> time until
> Microsoft comes and saves the government with a
> massive, expensive
> Peoplesoft implementation. Then maybe you will miss
> those old text based
> systems.
> Ray Fantini KA3EKH
> 
>
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