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From: hmm@gustav (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Subject: Re: what caused Parc Place stock to dive?
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 07:35:58 GMT
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John Sellers (sellers@sellers.com) wrote:

: I think ParcPlace has a funny way of deciding what is important.  
: Instead of broadening their market they are narrowing it for 
: years.  I suspect that they are over-controlling on the basis of 
: profitablity like many US companies now days.

...

: EXAMPLES:
: Silicon Graphics attempted to negotiate a port through the MIPS 
: Consortium and finally blew off ParcPlace because they were 
: quoted a million dollar figure for the port.  That is a cost 
: which should be born by the vendor, not the customer.  If I were 
: ParcPlace, I would jump at doing the SGI port with an MIPS ABI 
: compatible VM.  This is only 9% of the market right now, but SGI 
: had revenues of 2 billion dollars + 40% growth this last year.  I 
: don't think that PP would have any trouble capturing 1/10 of 1 
: percent of those revenues in order to pay for the port, and then 
: they would have significant new markets.

You might be pleased to hear that there is a MIPS ABI port
for the SGI available from the company I'm working for.
Georg Heeg Objektorientierte Systeme has done it, and as
far as i know, it should be available in the US from ParcPlace
directly.  Contact us at info@heeg.de for more information.

Hans-Martin

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