RE: MAKEMONEY cmd

[Colin Williams <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Business, including IT, is often like a game of poker, making the other
guys think you have a better or worse hand than you really have.
I think companies like Microsoft are just better at playing the game (at
the moment!)

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Fritz [mailto:JFritz@sharperimage.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:42 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: MAKEMONEY cmd


I think there are several things going on here.

First, IMHO, IBM has never completely adjusted to a situation where they
have competitors.  This leads to situations where cluelessness 
looks like
arrogance.  (Or, sometimes, arrogance looks like what it is. <g>)

I don't think people necessarily make buying decisions 
rationally, and even
in cases where they do, performance and reliability are not necessarily
first on the list.  I'm not sure that pointing out that you have a
demonstrably superior product (say the AS/400) is going to get 
you anywhere.
(It might not hurt to try, though.) 

I'm not an insider, but IMHO, the OS/2 vs. Windows thing looks 
like spite on
both sides.  OS/2 did start as a collaboration between M$ and IBM.  They
didn't part amicably.  

  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nina jones [mailto:ddi@datadesigninc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 5:50 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: MAKEMONEY cmd
> 
> 
> > Why aren't you offended by MS not porting to other 
> platforms? MS publicly
> > promised to port many tools to OS/2 when sales reached a 
> million - sales went
> > way past that figure MS never ported a thing.  IBM on the 
> other hand ported many
> > tools to Windows once 95 was available (after all Windows 
> 3.1 was hardly an OS) 
>       
> i've changed my opinion about microsoft over the past few years.  and
> the talk from my os/2 friend was an eyeopener.  this was about 3 years
> ago btw.
> 
> but my point was, ibm was telling us that we had to use os/2 to take
> advantage of things like visual rpg.  they weren't getting 
> the word out
> that everyone should use os/2 instead of windows, because it was more
> reliable. 
> 
> nj
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