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Dec 12 9:30 AM EST

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To: JC Jaros who wrote (47861)	7/16/2000 11:35:55 PM
From: rudedog	of 74651

If you're asking me what my personal opinion is, I think it is a sad thing - the Alpha is a great 64 bit processor, and as you point out, the demise of Alpha NT eliminated the last claim for NT platform independence. I also think MSFT was partly to blame for CPQ's decision. MSFT people rarely said anything good about Alpha NT, and MSFT was slow to port the necessary apps - the Office suite never ran quite right, and ran at all only because DEC wrote an X86 emulator for the Alpha. The back office apps also did not get good or timely ports. Perhaps as a result, Alpha NT sales were dismal. Pesatori was quoted saying they were less than 5% of Alpha sales, and that makes them pretty small potatoes. I suspect that MSFT thought CPQ would continue to do whatever it took to keep Alpha NT alive no matter what MSFT did, and it turned out that Pesatori was too hard-nosed to keep supporting a science project.

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