From: c2s0860@rigel.tamu.edu (C. S. Suehs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Advertising/Bad communication with dealers
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Date: 17 Apr 92 14:39:00 GMT
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1. I haven't seen anything on TV regarding OS/2. I've seen a few
microsoft comercials and heard quite a few pushes for Windows
on the radio. Get on the ball, IBM.
2. I've given up on the campus IBM dealer here in the MicroComputer
Center. They are still pushing Windows with their PS/2's. That
doesn't seem right. They also weren't helpful at all in getting
OS/2. Their IBM "Representative" is never there when I go by and
hasn't returned any of my calls. I've been trying to get in touch
with him since the beginning of the year.
IBM/OS/2 really have an uphill battle if this is an accurate sample of
the rest of the country.
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C. Steven Suehs, a Texas A&M University Biochem/Computer Sci Major
whose opinions probably are not shared by Academic Computing Services.
Dick Clark did not say "I think, therefore I am!" It was Descartes
who walked into a bar and was asked "Have a beer, sire?"
"I think not." >poof< and he was gone.
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From: gordonl@microsoft.com (Gordon Letwin)
Subject: Re: Advertising/Bad communication with dealers
Message-ID: <1992Apr26.000850.13889@microsoft.com>
Date: 26 Apr 92 00:08:50 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
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>In article <17APR199209393381@rigel.tamu.edu> css0860@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
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>>2. I've given up on the campus IBM dealer here in the MicroComputer
>> Center. They are still pushing Windows with their PS/2's. That
>> doesn't seem right.
But this is exactly right, isn't it? Everybody, myself included, is
excited about the "New IBM". According to press reports, the "New IBM"
is a decentralized body of organizations, each competing agressively
and independently.
And that's exactly what we're seeing here. The local dealer isn't following
some giant monolitic corporate party line - "Offer only OS/2, regardless
of your sales" - instead he's pushing what sells, Windows!
You can't have it both ways. If the "New IBM" is to be lean, mean, and
competitive, then you should expect the PS/2 sales teams to do what it
takes to sell PS/2s... things such as marketing them with popular and
successful software such as Windows.
Gordon Letwin
not a microsoft spokesperson