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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Subject: Re: Doug Hamilton responds
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.211827.10595@sequent.com>
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- References: <C16402.50I@panix.com> <1993Jan20.235340.27787@itsmail1.hamilton.edu> <C17G5t.7By@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 21:18:27 GMT
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- In article <C17G5t.7By@panix.com> os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.) writes:
- >In <1993Jan20.235340.27787@itsmail1.hamilton.edu> jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy) writes:
- >
- >>No flame, just curious: what was it that Microsoft did in that "hell of
- >>a job on wooing him over to the NT camp?"
- >
- >I would say, but I gave him my word that I wouldn't discuss it with anyone;
- >however, I will state that they "bent over backwards" to help him port his
- >product to NT, which is something I have yet to see from IBM (helping the
- >"little people", who are the one- and two-person shops). Instead, IBM
- >continues to ignore us and concentrate on the big accounts.
- >
- >It's no wonder that Doug is fed up with IBM.
- >
- >Cheers,
- >Q
- >--
-
- I can't let this one go...
-
- While it's commendable that Microsoft bent over backwards to help
- Doug Hamilton; don't go making blanket statments that IBM does just
- the oppposite.
-
- As a member of the DAP, I have to commend IBM and my DAP
- representative on a going the extra mile to do service job. I am
- very pleased with the responses I have gotten. They have been
- prompt, courteous, and when the Representative didn't know the
- answer, I got a name and phone number to call, or I got a call form
- an engineer in the appropriate division who worked with me to get
- an answer.
-
- There are several other small shops, and large ones that I
- communicate with regularly, and they all have had the same good
- experience with IBM. Several years ago, your statement was
- accurate, but not today...
-
- Now, to be fair to the other side:
-
- I also have the NT beta, and Microsoft is attentive to the needs
- that product provides as well. Fred McCall put it best over in one
- of the other groups when he brought up the fact that programmers
- and users are the territory to be won in this "OS war", not the
- army to fight the battle.
-
- For now, enjoy the attention and service you will receive by either
- company if you will just participate. IF there is no competition,
- there would not be this "bending over backwards" to help all
- concerned. Think about it...
-
- ...Paul
-
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