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Subject: Re: major micro article in business week
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Date: Wed, 28-Sep-83 17:13:08 EDT
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As Rosen of Rosen Research has been saying recently, the market, i.e.,
what people buy, is now driven less by the available technology than it
had been until nine months ago.  The question most people ask is not
can the technical problem be solved?, but does *IBM* have a solution to
the problem?

IBM's product strategy for the Personal Computer does allow for
innovation, however, since IBM learned from Apple that to succeed
micrcocomputers should have an open design and that the manufacturer should
provide a lot of technical information about its product.

IBM surveys the third-party hardware and then tries to capture some
part of the market.  For the average user of microcomputers this situation
in general is satisfactory, but is it really satisfactory for the
sophisticated user, who would like access to state of the art technology?

   john hogan
   north carolina educational computing service
   box 12035, research triangle park, nc 27709
   (919) 549 0671

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