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From: g2k@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Frederic Giacometti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: IBM pollution
Keywords: IBM policy NeXT
Message-ID: <7764@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 90 19:26:07 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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   Stop IBM pollution. I think that most of us know what to expect from them.
To remain within the workstation market, everybody rememebers how they
pushed their PS's and OS/2.

   Their marketing policy is well-known: We raise prices 150% on every product, then
we give a personal rebate of 50% to everybody. Of course, once you
started dealing with us, you are free as long as you don't go anywhere else.

   Well, a few days ago, some fellow sent an aggressive message "IBM kills NeXT".
I hope this guy is only naive, and does not have connections with IBM. An IBM
employee (most of them were brainwashed, they are easy to recognize: they wear
the same suits and speak the same IBM labelled language) has the duty to publicize
his company.
One of my ex professor of computer science was the scientific director
of IBM France, good deal for IBM, courses were of the sort "the IBM point of 
view is ...", "Unix ? C'est quoi ca ? a program for computer game ?", or "10 exp 32
man year where invested in the construction of VM/CMS, it is the most fantastic
work mankind ever thought of" etc... Everybody who has been in contact with them
has had a similar impression.
   IBM has the most skillfull marketing services, and the best trained salesmen
of the industry.
The letter referred above is one more example of the quality of their "poudre
aux yeux".

   Let's not send letter of the sort "my palmolive soap computes whiter than 
the colgate one"; therefore, although it is 60% more expensive, and that you must
buy the package separately (price undefined of course), my product kills
yours. Let's leave this type of argument to cleansing product advertisements
industry.

  It is a good idea to discuss about the new IBM workstation,
but let us do so on serious material, released by a non-IBM source.
Let's make clear than IBM info on their
product should not be relied on (the only info from IBM is on their product:
every IBM employee has signed an agreement where it is specified that non IBM
products should never be specified; the best attitude, other do not exist),
not to speak about a demo made by their people.

 Let all this be partial.

  
Frederic