"James B. Byrne" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> On 13 Mar 2002, at 7:56, John Clogg wrote:
>
> > What I find most irritating about this story is the Compaq user group
> > president saying that HP3000 users are a vocal minority

As a fellow member of the Encompass Board of Directors, I'd like to let you
know that Encompass President Joe Pollizzi was misquoted in the
Computerworld article. Whether Computerworld will print a
clarification/retraction remains to be seen.

>
> Of course we are a minority; we run real businesses, on real
> computers, for real clients, to solve real problems.  We don't see
> any financial or social gain to be had by employing large numbers
> of experimentors in applied mathematics to achieve on four or more
> new computers what we were able to accomplish on one old one.
>
> Somehow the idea that technology is desirable in itself seems to
> have taken root in certain business fields.  Personally I view
> technology like fashion; it comes, it goes, it changes, it returns in
> a new guise, and still we all wear clothes that are functionally
> identical.  The question is, do we need to spend $200.00 for a shirt
> when $40.00 will suffice?  Is it cost effective to pay a premium to
> have a designer label on the inside of a jacket?

IMHO, no. Which is why you'll never see me wear a Nike "swoosh" or a "Tommy"
logo. ;-}

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