Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!dftsrv!tzeng From: tzeng@sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: So WHERE is the 3000UX and CDTV Advertising??? Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 19:45:26 GMT References: <26196@know.pws.bull.com> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 60 In-reply-to: rkushner@sycom.UUCP's message of 27 May 91 16:07:50 GMT In article rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: Path: dftsrv!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Date: 27 May 91 16:07:50 GMT References: <26196@know.pws.bull.com> Organization: Life In Hell BBS, Sterling Heights, MI Lines: 43 In article <26196@know.pws.bull.com> ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes: > > I've heard nothing but good things about the 3000UX from people who have >been lucky enough to use it. Sounds like a sure thing in the workstation >market that could really help Commodore, both money and image wise. Does >anybody know why Commodore hasn't started shipping the thing yet? It seems to >me that with each day that passes more 3000UX prospects opt for something >else. With other vendors rushing to push out their own UNIX workstations >(Atari, etc.) I would think that Commodore would want to have it out ASAP. Look in a Unix rag for the "Born to run SVR4" ads for the A3000UX. You don't advertise in GameBoy Monthly(Or AmigaWorld) to sell Unix. [stuff deleted] -- Ronald Kushner Life In Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) --End included text Damned if I know where the ads are but getting C= to show off their machines is like pulling teeth. The Federal Systems people (Reston) really dropped the ball around here. I went out of my way to get them to demo the damn machine to my boss and then tried to get a demo machine for our customer (NASA-Goddard) who is about to do a largish UN*X buy. Well...somewhere around my 5th unreturned call I attended a NeXT demo. I mentioned that we were interested in a UN*X box and the sales rep called me back today "just to touch base". Looks like we're buying a NeXT for me and maybe a couple more for an internal company project. It also looks like that they will have a demo machine here for the gov't long before my next return call from C=. Actually Jana (the C= rep) has been pretty much on the ball but the people she's going thru are not overly professional. Had they followed up quickly (say, before the NeXT demo) they would have had at least one UX-D order in hand with maybe a few more to follow. No flames please...I am a proud owner of an A2000 and a rabid amigaphile ;-) but the NeXT machine is a lot smoother and their gov't sales people a lot more aggressive. The NeXT mailer is just too cool ;-). Nigel Tzeng