From: Thees Peereboom 

Geo,

Wonderful! Your post shows the relativity of things... IBM responsive...
The point is that MSFT has become so *unresponsive* that even IBM looks
responsive in comparison.

- Thees Peereboom

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:42:43 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:epq46vgs11raq25iuf3v1lbsk59blc7tee{at}4ax.com...
>
>> Like the coment made by one of the product managers at a Comdex or similar
>> exhibition:  ~~ There is no demand for an OS/2 version of our product, so
>I
>> wish everyone would stop asking for it.~~
>
>Have you heard many companies asking for linux desktops? I mean I would
>think IBM is fairly responsive, bunch of us keep telling them if they would
>just put a touchpad on the thinkpad we would buy them, they did it and
>thinkpad sales went nuts.
>
>If they felt the same opportunity existed with Linux desktops don't you
>think they would be pushing them all over the place? I mean IBM loves to
>sell hardware..
>
>Geo.
>

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