Replying to a message from Jack Stein 1:129/171 to Stewart Honsberger,

About OS/2 Sales, On Sat Sep 18 1999

 SH>>    IBM is quietly exceeding its own OS/2 sales expectations.

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 SH> Why are you being so harsh on them? What have they ever done
 SH> to you? 

Consider this Jack, and I agree with you on this call, I go to a computer
store, IBM to be exact, place is of no importance, I see absolutely no and I
mean NO OS/2 versions, Lotus SmartSuite/2, or any type of software that will
run under OS/2, that was bad enough, then I ask a sales person, what would I
be looking at for price to have the best OS/2 machine put together with all
the bells and whistles, guess what he looked at me as if I was an escapee from 
the mental asylum, said can't be done, we have not put one of those together
for years, and we wont as sales don't warrant us considering it, turned out he 
was sales manager.  I said to him, this is one place I thought I might get
support and information on Warp any version, software and hardware concerns,
boy was I wrong.

Looks like the IBM sales people are getting paid by M$ not IBM.  A pity.  Just 
too bad for me.

JS> They deprived me of getting a trip guide with a CD in it with
JS> software that runs under OS/2, rather than WIN95.  They made sure
JS> when one goes to Kmart, Babbages, or work, that one will see nothing
JS> but WIN95 crap.  


Try any software Jack, it is getting to the point where one needs to be a
programmer to be running OS/2. :-(

 SH> change market perception, when you can ride the wave?

JS> That does not explain why IBM pulled the plug on OS/2 just days
JS> before the release of WIN95. Just when OS/2 was gaining tremendous
JS> momentum in the market place.  Sales where just hitting 1 million
JS> copies per month, when IBM switched tactics from non-support, to
JS> overtly telling folks OS/2 was NOT for them, that they should NOT
JS> use OS/2. 

Lousy poor marketing strategy IMO.  (That is not what I ma thinking it is
unacceptable what went through my mind to put in this reply.)

 JS> IBM is a pack of liars!

  SH> You're an uninformed pest.

I guess we all are Jack, very uninformed.  Bull.

JS> I don't think so.  I don't need "informed", I watched it happen.   

The proof is in the pudding, and I don't see any pudding do you?

 SH> Take your FUD elsewhere. I don't want the likes of you in an
 SH> echo for support of one of my chosen OSs.

Stewart, I have received more support in this echo and amongst a few other
people that I have picked on, than I ever got for DOS or any other program I
am running except Terminate, and TimEd.  And in spite of what you may think
some has come from Jack and some from you.  So we do need Jack here.

JS> What you like and what you get are not always the same thing. You
JS> should know that by now...

True so very true.

Hope this helps.  Keep us posted.

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