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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (7661)2/23/1999 1:38:00 PM
From: BeachBum  Read Replies (3) of 10072
 
Nadine...
I use the word Rockies as a general term. The post you were referring to he uses a Rockyism. He stated that IOM is at the mercy of the OEM's to sell the drives as cheap as possible. It has been stated many times that IOM is moving from a retail to an OEM business model. My point is if they sell the drives to oem's at or slightly below costs that when one buys a computer the 1st Zip disk they buy makes up for the drive margin on oem drives.

Unlike Syquest IOM had a large installed base of retail drives before they pushed the oem model. Syquest sold drives at or below cost while trying to close an enormous gap between them and the leader in their field. That plan was doomed from the start. I don't believe they made much on the disks either, since they were cheap and didn't have a large base of installed drives to push disk sales.

I've been reading/posting to this thread for about 3 are 4 years ( used to be under my real name ) so yes sometimes KP makes good points. But he also claims not to have a position in this stock which should make people wonder why hes here. How do you know KP isn't one of the Rockies as they post under different handles ? To try to make they're FUD work they also need some on their side with some credibility. Notice how he defended Rocky as if he was one person and we should that him for saving us from ourselves.

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