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- From: hayesb@yvax.byu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: re: Lee Reiswig speaks!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.125757.1350@yvax.byu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 12:57:57 -0700
- References: <dposey.727599220@well.sf.ca.us> <1993Jan21.123925.26838@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan21.123925.26838@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen) writes:
- > In article <dposey.727599220@well.sf.ca.us> dposey@well.sf.ca.us (David Posey) writes:
- >>8) The 'OS/2 cost $2Billion to develop' strawman is (direct quote follows)
- >> 'utter and complete bullsh*t'. [The numbers just don't work out - Mr.
- >> Reiswigs annual budget is approx. $400 mil, including many developers
- >> not working on OS/2, marketing, etc. Somewhere in the range of $100M
- >> to $500M is more likely]
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- $2 billion buckarooskies is a MAJOR investment. Heck, GMs brainchild Saturn
- Corporation spent (I think) $3 billion and seven years to develop the car and
- the manufacturing plant. $2 billion for OS/2 development doesn't make sense.
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- Bryan
- hayesb@yvax.byu.edu
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