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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!scifi!watson!
- From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
- Subject: Re: IBM screws U again
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.161040.23222@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 16:10:40 GMT
- News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.15 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
- Lines: 25
- Reply-To: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
- References: <1992Dec14.194153.8726@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research
-
- In <1992Dec14.194153.8726@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- >The Radius XGA-2 card will RETAIL (not "List") for $499 because IBM wants
- >to bleed Radius for licensing fees. Thus, IBM screws over Radius, who
- >will lose a lot of sales (me, for one), the typical OS/2 customer who
- >wants a faster system, and themselves all at once.
-
- Please give some details as to where you got this information about the
- license agreement - Was it from Radius or is it a guess based on their
- price (no witch hunt intended here - if the cost is too high I want to
- bring it to the attention of the appropriate management so they can re-think
- the pricing)? From what I remember, the license fee for the XGA-2 should not
- be that high (although I may misremember it).
-
- >This is clearly a good example why Windows NT presents such a threat to
- >the upper level OS market. Microsoft might just care about it's customers
- >(unlike Big Blue) and take out the market right out from under them.
-
- I hope that we can convince you that we (IBM) care about how you feel. If
- we don't, I'll be out of a job 8-).
-
- Cliff Nadler
- IBM Federal Systems Company
-
- Note: This post represents the views of the poster, not those of IBM or the
- IBM Federal Systems Company
-