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From: jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: IBM screws RT owners?
Summary: I want to know why.
Message-ID: <1137@gort.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 90 21:48:22 GMT
References: <1133@gort.cs.utexas.edu> <544@lot.ACA.MCC.COM>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <544@lot.ACA.MCC.COM> ables@lot.ACA.MCC.COM (King Ables) writes:
>While I was contracting at IBM I found out about this plan and was
>also quite shocked.  I sat down and talked with several people about
>it because I felt it was a *big* mistake to cut off established customers.
>
>I can't recall what all the rhymes and reasons were now, but there
>*were* *some* good reasons (for IBM) to do this.  It was a case of
>the lesser of two evils.  I do recall it was mostly business reasons
>(which being a techie-type, I have to accept that they think it's
>a better idea... I'm not really armed to debate business issues).
>
> [stuff deleted]....

  It's nice of you to respond, King, but as you say, you don't remember
the reasons, and you weren't equipped to debate the reasons when they
were presented to you.
  IBM is not in the habit of answering queries on the net, but there are
certainly a lot of IBM employees who follow this newsgroup. The IBM 
bureacracy being as bloated as it is, I imagine most of those employees
don't know the reasons either. 
  The policies will just happen, the RT will disappear slowly in 
"fire sale" mode, and that will be the end of it....

     ---Jason

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