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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: the Druid who wrote (48044)	2/17/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: Michael Coley	Respond to of 58324

RE: Ernst & Young and Superdisks. Leave it to an accounting firm to buy external 3 1/2" floppy drives... It probably has something to do with increasing billable hours. - Michael Coley - wwol.com

To: the Druid who wrote (48044)	2/17/1998 11:16:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

I think that Iomaniacs who question whether or not people will dump Zip for another, better drive, will be shocked at how fast they actually do. Zip= old technology. It is very expensive $/MB compared to most other drives out there. The best bargain is, of course, SyQuest SparQ, but this is beside the point. The point is, Sony is coming. Iomega is justifiably worried, and Iomaniacs who blissfully sing the praises of Zip while staring upwards in the coming rainstorm will drown. People will dump Zip in a heartbeat if there is a better product out there.

To: the Druid who wrote (48044)	2/17/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

>>Ernst & Young has adopted SuperDisk technology to replace the Iomega Zip products currently used by its consultants.<< All - I notice that the driving factor in E & Y's decision appears to have been the fact that the single internal drive solution works better for notebooks. I have long maintained that the notebook arena is the only market where LS-120 has any advantage at all. If you read this announcement carefully, you will notice that they are ordering a whole 2,000 drives for their consultants in the US. Yet Imation feels that it's necessary to issue a press release about it. Is this the biggest order they have ever gotten? - Allen

To: the Druid who wrote (48044)	2/17/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: Cameron Dorey	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

"Ernst & Young has adopted SuperDisk technology to replace the Iomega Zip products currently used by its consultants." Read the next paragraph carefully: "Ernst & Young will specify SuperDisk drives as its internal drive component of choice in both desktop and notebook computers for use by its globally mobile staff of consultants. Additionally, the company has already placed an initial order for more than 2,000 Imation SuperDisk Parallel Port Drives for its U.S.-based staff." In the immor(t)al word of our Rock of Gibraltar: "VAPOR!" This article does not state that E&Y has ordered a single notebook with an LS120 installed, but has ordered 2000 PP drives. If you look at Imation's web pages, you see that NEC is the only OEM which includes the LS120 in a notebook; this cuts down E&Y's choices a lot. As the bears on this string are always reminding the rest of us, corporations can pull out their support in a nanosecond if something else comes along better - 2000 PP drives is not enough to cause E&Y to stake the future of the company on this irrevocable choice. Cameron "The first example is always the best."