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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Educational pricing
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Date: 22 Feb 91 22:02:21 GMT
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In article <1364@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> bigbroth@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (James M. Coleman) writes:
>When I called back 
>the local dealer I pretty much got the same story with one additional
>note, Howard Diamond, as well as some of his staff have been fired for
>a lack of results.  NOTE: this was from a dealer NOT Commodore so I am
>not 100% sure of it's truth.

	There were many reasons for Howard Diamond leaving the
company. I do not believe that lack of results was the main
issue, nor can I discuss any of them. 8-)
	However, on the optimistic note, Paul Calkin is his
replacement. (Assuming I remember everything properly) Paul has
been with Commodore for appr. 1 year, having come from AT&T where
he had a strong Unix background.
	Paul Calkin has decided to reverse many of the directions
of the educational group. The price list you see released was
created under Howard Diamond's direction and Mr. Calkin wants
much of it changed. The educational marketing people are still in
"transition" and so there is naturally a state of some confusion.
I wouldn't expect it to last long. I trust these people to get
things in order.

>	Jim Coleman
>
>
>A story for the Education people at Commodore:
>
>This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and
>Nobody.  There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it.
>Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.  Anybody could have done it.  But
>Nobody did it.  Somebody got angry at that because it was Everybody's job.
>Everybody thought Anybody could do it.  But Nobody realized Everybody
>wouldn't do it.  It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did
>what Anybody could have done.
>
	No comment on that, either. 8-)

>
>
>
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>If Commodore were to come out with a shirt-pocket, 100 MIPS Amiga
>with 20 megs of memory and 1 gig of disk, and sold it for $300,
>the first thing the industry would ask is "Is it IBM compatible?".
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I like it. 8)

	-- Ethan


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