RE: 3489 IBM Terminals

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Quite profound.

Rob Berendt

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Once you're the market leader it's no longer proprietary -- it's the
industry standard.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Rehm [mailto:javadisciple@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:56 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: 3489 IBM Terminals


So why shouldn't "proprietary and expensive" work as well for IBM as it
does for other "market leaders"?
;-)

D.BALE@handleman.com wrote:

>> Problem was you're the first person I've heard of who admits to owning
one.
>> No one seemed interested in IBM's fantastic GUI breakthrough.
>
>
> Make that "IBM's fantastic *but proprietary and expensive* GUI
breakthrough"
>
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
>   Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>   (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

--
Chris Rehm
javadisciple@earthlink.net


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