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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM's plan for OS/2 and you
Keywords: $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
Message-ID: <1290@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 20 Oct 89 15:06:03 GMT
References: <900@micropen> <15626@netnews.upenn.edu> <1255@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <15677@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <15677@netnews.upenn.edu>, silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Andy Silverman) writes:
|  The mistake is in assuming that IBM is targeting OV at the single-user
|  workstation market.  It seems much more like they're aiming it at the
|  integrated corporate market where people use mainframes and PC's together.
|  Much like they do internally.  In this case, they're obviously hoping the
|  large corporations will be willing to spend a lot of money.  They're also
|  hoping for the cost per megabyte to go down as higher density chips become
|  available...

  Not IBM. Memory chips from the regular suppliers are running about
$100/MB, from IBM about $300MB. Knock off 30% corporate discount and you
still get double. Since IBM makes their own chips there's only one
reason I can guess for that pricing... greed. It can't cost IBM any more
to make chips than everybody else, can it?
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon