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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Future direction of A/UX?  (Corrections)
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Date: 21 May 89 17:21:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: gnu@hoptoad.uucp's message of 19 May 89 06:04:07 GMT


One comment that John Gilmore makes certainly stands out louder than
any quibbling over interpretation of facts and numbers:

	Where are the A/UX advertisements?

I've never seen one tho I might have missed it. Someone at work is
considering buying an A/UX system (he likes MacOS stuff and figures
this would be a comfortable way for him to get into Unix.)

I'm (now) going to make a condition of that purchase that he (or
anyone) show me a few A/UX ads. I surely can't take the product any
more seriously than Apple does. Such a large company advertises what
they plan to sell and support, it indicates a minimal commitment to
product.

I've been burned like this before, new product lines which millions
were being spent on internally by major companies but were not
advertised. To a one they died and I was stuck with an instant
dinosaur, no matter how inherently attractive the box was it quickly
had to be disposed of or ignored (no support, no software, no upgrades
etc.) I ain't falling for that trick again.
-- 
	-Barry Shein, Software Tool & Die

There's nothing more terrifying to hardware vendors than
satisfied customers.