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The Great Industry Standard Conspiracy

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 18, 2008

“It comes from the same warped (but ingenious) minds that coined
the term “legacy” back in the 1990s. That harmless word served to
forward the Windows NT – Intel processor gravy train at the expense
of so-called inferior technologies like mainframe, OpenVMS and even
Unix. Yet many would argue that despite all the genuine improvement
to Windows in recent years to make it much more enterprise
friendly, it still can’t hold a candle to many of these legacy
systems.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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