As someone who was buying hardware in the late 1990s, it is hard to overstate the difference in buying experience between Sun or Digital (DEC) and someone like Dell. The former forced you into a live sales meeting, endless quote revisions, it was a nightmare. I remember calculating the server rails and power cords for a new Alpha server were going to cost more than a shipped/delivered Dell server that I could get the next day.
And that is the "thing". Every failed mini company had the same exact issue, seems customers had to beg and/or go through hell to purchase equipment. Never mind that the hardware was more expensive than what you cold buy from companies like Dell.
IBM is not much better than what I hear, but somehow they keep surviving. Probably because of their mainframe business.
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jmclnx · · focus · HN ↗
IBM is not much better than what I hear, but somehow they keep surviving. Probably because of their mainframe business.
bch · · focus · HN ↗
[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM#2010s%E2%80%93present" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM#2010s%E2%80%93present
[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
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