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- From: ajross@husc9.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: IBM MARKETING
- Message-ID: <ajross.712044156@husc9>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 06:02:36 GMT
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- rdixon@gemini.cs.nps.navy.mil (robert dixon) writes:
-
- > I'm curious exactly how IBM is expecting to achieve any market
- >penetration with this kind of marketing. The latest PC Shopper seemed
- >to think that OS/2 was mainly a way for IBM mainframe customers to
- >connect to IBM mainframes, with the small business and home market as
- >sort of an afterthought, which would certainly explain my experiences
- >here.
-
- > I'm interested in others' comments/experiences with this.
-
- This has been my experience, too. My local Egghead does stock OS/2, or
- rather stocked it. I was in today and noticed it was no longer on the
- shelves. WOW, I thought, could they have sold out? Nope. The store
- manager had taken it off the shelves because all he had were the upgrade
- packages and he wasn't sure if IBM was still honoring the upgrade pricing.
-
- I was actually under the impression that the prices were good until the
- end of the month. Regardless, though, I place the blame here with IBM.
- Store managers cannot be trusted to actually know anything about the
- software they stock--I think most of us would agree with this. Somehow,
- IBM had failed to make clear to this man (or the rest of us for that
- matter) what exactly the deal was with their upgrade pricing. Someone had
- better get on the ball.
-
- Andy Ross
- ajross@husc.harvard.edu
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