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November 2001, Week 4

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Re: IBM as an option
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Jerry Leslie <[log in to unmask]>
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Jerry Leslie <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:16:24 -0600
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Barnes, Dennis ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
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: What irony!  After years of pleading, we never got HP to publicize and
: promote the HP-3000 and here's IBM so zealously advertising an
: open-source operating system that they get sued!!
:
At least IBM advertises their non-PC mainframes.

The VMS community feels the same way. DEC, then Compaq, have refused to
market a product line that brings in $4 billion per year of high-margin
revenue.

Where is the marketing money going ?  To Wintel Cartel boxes where margins
are almost zero !!


--Jerry Leslie     (my opinions are strictly my own)

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