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Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
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In article <3DFA1BB8.1050303@cogeco.ca>, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:

> I am very aware that text "fails to impress" people these days, but when
> you own the company, you don't necessarily care that those under you
> are stuck using cheap dumb terminals (especially if clients never get
> tours for impressions). There are still a large number of warehouse
> (and similar) situations, where they are quite content to use dumb
> terminals. They're cheap, never need software upgrades, don't get
> viruses, can't pass viruses onto the LAN etc. They also don't need
> Microsoft licenses/extortion to keep them going.

They also don't run Solitare or Mine Sweeper.