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From: stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.COM (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: IBM announces NextStep on AIX, PS/2, RIOS, etc.
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Date: 15 Feb 90 15:15:19 GMT
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Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich@cs.psu.edu> writes:

> IBM had an RT running NeXTStep at the Baltimore USENIX last summer.  It was
> very slow and crashed a lot.  They did not have anything running NeXTStep at
> the UNIFORUM in Washington, and then they make this announcement.  One might
> conclude that some divisions in IBM do not talk to each other. :-)

Is anyone surprised at this?  As part of a company comparable in size
to IBM, I can attest that different parts of a large company are often
not only unaware of what others are doing, they don't care.  No
division lets others make decisions for it.  The same applies for
subdivisions and subsubdivisions, etc.

Unless you have reason to believe that something has the personal
attention of the CEO or else represents a broad consensus within the
company, be wary of reading too much into what "the company" does.

--
Dick St.Peters, GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
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