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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: How to bet $100,000 on OS/2 and lose it.
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:19:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.191909.6957@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan7.192103.16828@netcom.com> <1993Jan12.175549.15638@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan12.175549.15638@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
- }I wish to report that IBM is doing a great deal to assist me in
- }response to my early morning bitch. Thanks to some unsolicited and
- }excellent technical advice from an IBM developer in Boca I now see a
- }very elegant and simple way to accomplish my goal without need for the
- }driver at all. A much better solution than the one I envisioned.
-
- Would you be willing to share this insight even though I am such an
- OS/2 neophyte, I might not know what to do with it?
-
- }I probably should have seen this method myself but OS/2 is so rich
- }functionally that it escaped my notice. There is a lesson here.
- }Had I known of this long ago, my product would be out there now.
- }[The need for an expert consultation service as part of the DAP].
-
- }As I was typing that I received a call from John Soyring's office
- }[suggesting that very idea and stating that it "is being addressed"].
- >[Unlike MS, the "new IBM" can acknowledge and ameliorate mistakes.]
-
- I am pleased and gratified that your situation is taking a turn for
- the better. It's a pity that you had to throw a tantrum to get the
- attention you needed. You were dealing with a company on "automatic
- pilot" -- i.e., no thinking, just blindly doing things the "way we've
- always done them." Often times, the people will behave this way even
- when they have the authority to act differently. Big companies are
- prone to this, but even a company like Microsoft can suffer from it
- (though right now, it's difficult to tell if MS is being stupidly
- malicious or if they're just being stupid when they hinder the
- progress of OS/2). Stretching my pilot allegory to the breaking
- point, you seem to have made enough noise to get the attention of the
- Captain who took the company off of automatic pilot -- felicitations.
-
- I wonder if IBM also needs a "Problem Resolution Officer" to help
- facilitate the process of finding solutions to such problems?
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
- Norman, listen carefully. I am lying. Are you sure your circuits are
- registering? Your ears are green. Logic is a little bird singing in a
- meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
-