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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: UNIXPC in the movies!
Keywords: stupidity
Message-ID: <651@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 16:31:09 GMT
References: <640@ivucsb.UUCP> <4531@vpk4.UUCP> <545@argon.UUCP> <8049@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <8049@chinet.chi.il.us> ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat) writes:
=*I* think I'd rather they priced their products properly, so they don't end
=up with a good box that's just not cost-effective, and then, instead of re-
=pricing when they realize their mistake, killing the product.  On a related
=note, I'd also wish they would have understood just who to target for a powerful
=little Unix box--not the "box for the masses", but the "desktop workstation for
=the developers".

Oh, so you'd like AT&T to learn something about marketing?  So would the rest
of their customers.  I've *never* received a call from our account executive.
I wonder how he expects to sell us any upgrades or new systems.

Pete

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