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- From: slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos)
- Subject: Re: Stacker for OS/2....March?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.015623.25413@unlv.edu>
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- Organization: UNLV Computer Science
- References: <C16HHK.7DI@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> <s_fuller.727636320@vincent2.iastate.edu> <1993Jan23.112143.10725@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 01:56:23 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.112143.10725@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >I have since heard from others here in NZ who met the Stac rep that they made
- >exactly this point. In one case, the guy showed her DCF/2 specs and info and
- >said:"This is your competition......you will have to be equal or better to
- >sell OS/2 disk compression.....".
-
- Sadly, I don't think that this is the case. Had DCF/2 shipped at ANY
- one of the release dates in the past, they would have cleaned up. I
- think it is a race now though. If Proportional doesn't release before
- Stac, they aren't going to have a chance. HPFS or not, Stacker has two
- things:
- 1) H-U-G-E popularity and support from the media.
- 2) TRUST. It has been in use so long that few people are not
- completely trusting of Stacker.
-
- The second one is important, IMO. It doesn't matter how good DCF/2 is
- (seems like a far better product than Stacker to me), people are going
- to be warry of it at first. All of these delays and charging credits
- cards before they ship aren't going to help them to gain trust either.
-
- TTYL - Steve
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