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Subject: Re: Dubious marketing practices
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Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 15:41:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 12 15:41:09 1987
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In article <2607@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
...
<        Am I jaded?  Am I being naive?  Am I just turned off by big
<companies and prefer to stick my neck out with relative startups like Sun?
<I was having a conversation a few weeks ago with a man whose opinion I
<respect greatly when he said something which really took me by surprise.  I
<was singing the praises of sexy things like Suns, Sequents, Iris's, Lisp
<Machines, etc, and making disparaging remarks about Vaxen, when he said
<that the next machine he buys will be another Vax because if you make the
<wrong decision and buy something new, you'll get screwed but nobody will
<ever get fired by making the wrong decision and buying a Vax.  Comments?

I thought that was IBM that nobody ever got fired for ... :-)



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