“Compaq Computer Corp. this week laid off roughly 100 engineers
responsible for developing Windows NT on the Alpha platform,
several informed sources said.”
“In what may be a related move, Wes Melling, former vice
president of OpenVMS and NT integration at Compaq, resigned this
week, sources said…”
“Compaq officials did not return a request for comment. But in
recent weeks, Compaq has been playing up Linux, True64 Unix and
OpenVMS as the preferred operating systems for Alpha.”
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