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From: palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: RPQ Upgrade for 125 -> 135 (Was: curious)
Message-ID: <910@fiver.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 89 09:09:07 GMT
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From article <8825@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, by luner@werewolf.CS.WISC.EDU (David L. Luner):

> First I preach.

  <First I make a fool of myself in front of more than 1 million readers>
  
> With the exception of the folks at Palo Alto (AWD Support for AOS),
> most of the IBMers that post on this forum are nice guys from the
> Research Division.

  <With the exeption of my own view of other IBM internal affairs
   which should not be discussed on a public network> 

>  I'm in the Marketing Division and support customers
> running AIX in commercial environments.
   
   <I am in marketing>

> As we all know, IBM Marketing
> is slowly catching on to the RT as a real system.

  < But I don't know what I'm doing yet.>

> Please use your local
> branch office as a resource for questions as much as possible. This is
> the only way they will build the expertise so that they can answer your
> questions in the future.

  < Please spend more of your time and money teach me how to market
    a UNIX product more effectively >
  
> Preach off.
 

  I didn't really mean to poke at you but I was under the impression
IBM had a little more marketing clout than to ask thier customers
how to do it. In fact I would think that IBM would spend marketing
dollars to compile this information. I don't know I could be wrong,
but if a potential customer reads that you have call up and *build*
*teach* thier marketing department on something thier trying to 
find out you may scare them away.  

---Bob

Disclaimer: Of coarse these are my opinions only.
            That is what my lawyer told me to say.
 
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