[rescue] WTF? Micros**t used Suns!

[James Lockwood]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:

> I read no long ago that M$ used AS/400 for their financial stuff, I
> checked with a friend at IBM, and he told me that word has it that part of
> the contract was that IBM could not use that fact as a marketing ploy.
> Heh...

As one of my previous jobs, we built software used by the Federal Reserve
(automation services, FRAS).  One of the terms of the contract was that we
couldn't use that information in advertising.  Seems to be standard
practice when your customers get big enough.

-James