[CLUE-Talk] M$ strikes again

[grant]

>
> I seem to recall someone getting fired in 99 for trying to deploy an NT WAN
> world-wide.  NT, the email system, and I don't recall what else failed
> miserably and cost millions of dollars.  Too bad I don't remember the company.
>
> I think that the original solution was some Unix system with different vendor
> software packages.  Then MS came in and did its song and dance to some upper-
> level managers, who overrode the IT people.  That's the trouble with letting
> management make
> decisions.
>
USMC.  The system they tried to replace was Banyan Vines.