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From: rogers@ofc.Columbia.NCR.COM (H. L. Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: AT&T Joining OSF
Message-ID: <225@ofc.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 5 Aug 88 19:36:08 GMT
References: <10474@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <5960008@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <3d999147.d8e9@apollo.COM> <57@minya.UUCP> <3dad8e69.d8e9@apollo.COM>
Reply-To: hl.rogers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (H. L. Rogers)
Organization: NCR Corp, E&M-Columbia, W Columbia, SC
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In article <3dad8e69.d8e9@apollo.COM> gallen@diskless.UUCP (Gary Allen) writes:
>In article <57@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>[......]
>>                                                                      OSF,
>>with IBM's sales budget, could sell a buggy, user-unfriendly Unix to much
>>of the market and convince people that it was good.
>To start with OSF is not IBM is not DEC is not Apollo is not HP, ad nauseum.
>OSF does not have IBM's sales budget.
>
OSF does not even *need* IBM's sales budget.  IBM sales of the 
OSF-produced product will give instant credibility to OSF.  That 
seems to be Mr. Chambers' point.  OSF will not have to worry about 
sales budget, software quality, etc.  The irony is that IBM probably
does not even care, since this business is just a drop in the
bucket of their total revenue.

-- 
HL Rogers    (hl.rogers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM)