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- From: rjmathia@novell.com (Robert Mathias)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Boom! You're Dead.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.172412.4027@novell.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 17:24:12 GMT
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- In article <9277.2A6E80B2@psycho.fidonet.org> Alan.Gilbertson@f230.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Alan Gilbertson) writes:
- >Wednesday July 22 1992, Marc Unangst writes:
-
- >The idea that Hayes is being beat up by USR and Telebit is a popular
- >but unsubstantiated myth. -- Mostly promulgated in Ziff-Davis rags
- >and circles where USR (BBSes) and Telebit (Usenet) are common.
-
- It's popular to blame the press for everything, but in this case it is not
- so. Both USR and Telebit dominate their particular markets because they
- provided the best product earliest. USR got into the 9600 and above market
- at a price that was affordable for PC BBS's. They aggressively pursued this
- market and even to this day most PC BBS's (with high speed modems) use USR.
- Telebit went after the Usenet market by providing a modem best suited for
- UUCP usage, thus ending up with the lion share of that market.
-
- My guess is that V.32 and V.32bis has impacted both USR and Telebit in that
- other vendors are now selling attractive packages. I still don't see a
- big presense of Hayes in the BBS or Usenet markets. I would guess that
- Hayes is big in the Corporate market. Hayes also sells well to the BBS and
- Usenet markets, they just don't dominate them. But I would think that you'd
- find that USR and Telebit do not do as well outside their targeted markets.
- I'm sure there must be a PC (non-unix) BBS that uses a Trailblazer, but if
- Telebit had to rely on that market, they'd be out of business.
-
- It is very easy to see how a BBS user would see "that Hayes is being beat up
- by USR...". After all, in their world they see USR, not Hayes. The same is
- true for the UUCP market where Telebit dominates.
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- >Internet: Alan.Gilbertson@f230.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG
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