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From: jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: New product?
Summary: Null comparison.
Keywords: IBM, AT&T, etc....
Message-ID: <1121@gort.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 90 23:25:01 GMT
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In article <109944@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> steele@m2.csc.ti.com (Jeri Steele) writes:
>One of the Fall UNIX Today's had all the info on the new product.
>Attending the disclosure was almost ho-hum after reading the article.
> ...[stuff deleted]....
>A few words in defense of IBM:
>
>As an AT&T user when the IBM systems engineer wheeled in the RT
>I was sceptical. I figured IBM-UNIX was an oxymoron!
>
>But, when I had problems with the RT, my systems engineer
>was right there.  IBM had him and the regional AIX expert to come with
>me to my customer's site 450 miles away. 
>
>...[stuff deleted]... But I for one have had considerably better
>sales & service experiences with IBM than I have had with AT&T.
>

  Comparing IBM to AT&T isn't much of a comparison. AT&T isn't one
of the big players in the Unix workstation market other than their
development and licensing of SYSVR4, which has little to do with 
selling and servicing Unix workstations. A lot of the major complaints
about the RT are equally applicable to the AT&T 3B series. If you 
want to make an interesting comparison, look at the latest stuff from
Sun, HP, DEC, and MIPS.     

     ---Jason
 
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