From: pontius@btv.vnet.ibm.com (Dale Pontius)
Subject: Re: MicroSoft to purchase Aonix?
Date: 1997/05/30
Date: 1997-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5mmi2h$fm6$1@mdnews.btv.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bc6c71$0d641ba0$220b6dce@my-pc.neosoft.com
In article <01bc6c71$0d641ba0$220b6dce@my-pc.neosoft.com>,
"Pat Rogers" <progers@acm.org> writes:
>
> Unfortunately, however, the people you are dealing with sound like they are
> making their decisions on non-technical criteria, so I think you are out of
> ammo anyway. On the other hand, I've just had a lot of dental work done,
> and the nitrous has not quite worn off (thus this post), so maybe I'm not
> seeing something.
>
I continue to be amazed by the number of technical decisions that
these days are nearly entiredly being based on marketing criteria.
Makes you wonder when and where something's going to fail, and
how spectacularly. Also makes you hope lives won't be at stake.
Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-05-29 0:00 MicroSoft to purchase Aonix? Mike D Bates
1997-05-29 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Scott Stallcup
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
[not found] ` <01bc6c71$0d641ba0$220b6dce@my-pc.neosoft.com>
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Dale Pontius [this message]
1997-05-30 0:00 ` jim hopper
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-05 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
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1997-05-30 0:00 gilbert prine
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Mike D Bates
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