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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Monty Lenard who wrote (12420)	12/28/1997 3:47:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 94695

HI Claude; No doubt..I remember the underhanded stuff IBM pulled , from turning their pc jr into an orphan, and leaving the little guy holding the bag; to conering the market on dram and paying off the politicians to stop the importing of Japanese dram , making memory the most expensive item in a pc, it was like gold..$150 or more a meg, all thanks to IBMs underhanded crap. I predicted then it would backfire on them..a black market started..IBM was hitting $60 a share back in 92..by late 93 she was down to $20 a share..and it took her over 3 years to get back to $60..She is riding high now; over a $100 wonder what the suckers will do if she falls back to around $35. If you look back at some of my post..you will see were I just returned their piece of junk called Voice Type..they should be brought up on criminal charges for advertising that crap, I get freeware off TWO COWS that's better. I'm not sure which has the worst ethics them or MSFT or INTL, and the lack of ethics on their part will be the main reason our TECH lead is going to vanish, they spend to much time trying to trick people and lock them in, instead of just producing a better product..it's all turning to bloatware. Jim

To: Monty Lenard who wrote (12420)	12/28/1997 7:55:00 PM
From: kas1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

TC, say what you will about IBM, but OS/2 was a fine product, that lost out to superior marketing and a mickey-mouse interface. I used it -- and sang its praises -- for almost its entire product life (I consider it to have died about a year ago... now they're trying to make something Java/Citrix-like out of it). Unfortunately, the lack of software (due to the lack of an installed base) made it an unrealistic OS to run for anyone who wanted to use ANY popular software. I abandoned it when I couldn't find even a half-decent word processor for it. I once had a problem getting a new video card to work with OS/2. I called IBM toll-free late one night, and was connected with a knowledgeable individual in just a few minutes, who told me exactly what to change in my config files. Here's the kicker -- a week or two later, an IBM engineer calls me at home on a Sunday afternoon to make sure that everything is working out OK! Try to get that from Mickeysoft. End of sermon. :-)