That's what a lot of people say about DEC, their tools were really "cool" from a techie's point of view (like mine) but not usually feasible in the business world because they cost too darn much. VAXen were really used a lot in educational settings, I think they still may be.

>I remember doing a deliverables review on a system written in BASIC on a DEC Rainbow. I thought that it was a neat little machine with it's dual CPUs.
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>>DEC was technologically excellent, they did'nt understand the need to change the business model after the advent of PC's. Look at the Rainbow and the DEC Pro 350 -- the only source for develoment tools was DEC, the tools had minicomputer prices. Therefore, the application came almost exclusively form DEC and was limited in scope and prohibitively expensive. They got smarter later, but it was too late. We'll see what Compaq can do with the technology.