[CLUE-Talk] M$ strikes again

[G. Richard Raab]

On Thursday 14 November 2002 09:37 pm, grant wrote:
> > 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.
It was a bank over in the UK. 
> >
> > 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.
>
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