Re: NT sales don't doesn't matter

["Eric DeLong"<eric.delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

     Clarification. Sure it matters to the marketers because unit sales 
     means income. In terms of judging the product's relative value, 
     though, unit sales is all just a bunch of bull&@#$%. If it takes 20 
     NT servers to run a Notes database as opposed to 1 AS400, does that 
     mean that MS has proven it's dominance as a Notes Server because 
     they've sold more units? That ridiculous! 
     
     Soapbox(*on) Rantmode(*engaged)
     IMO, MS marketing has done a wonderful job of deflecting awareness 
     of their product deficiencies. However, the only way that MS can 
     keep this up is to not allow the masses of technically challenged, 
     financially lucrative end users hear otherwise. Who else can get 
     people to PAY to be beta users? Who else can sell an OS with over 
     3,000 documented bugs, fix about 25% of the bugs and sell the 
     upgrade as a "new OS". What ever happened to fixing the product 
     that I already paid for? 
     
     As a programmer, I couldn't expect to keep a job if I told my 
     employers "sure, my system has a lot of bugs, some of which may 
     cause the computer to spontaneously lock up or reboot without any 
     warning, causing unexpected downtime and loss of revenue. But soon, 
     you can pay me for a new version with completely different set of 
     bugs that will make my old garbage obsolete. " 
     
     eric.delong@pmsi-services.com


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Subject: NT sales don't doesn't matter 
Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > at INET_WACO
Date:    12/2/98 1:57 PM


>     The fact that M$ has sold 600,000 copies of NT Server really
>     doesn't mean anything to anyone but M$.

Do you really think Rochester, Novell, Sun and all of the Unix vendors think
this way?




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