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- From: bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 300,000 sold in ten days
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.120418.23425@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 17:04:18 GMT
- References: <18045.1088.uupcb@satalink.com>
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
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- In article <18045.1088.uupcb@satalink.com> bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) writes:
- > > IBM sent two "pros from Dover" (to use a MASH the movie term) to the
- > > last MN OS/2 End-user Group meeting...
- > > - OS/2 2.0 sold 300,000 copies in the last 10 days. If this continues,
- > > it has a daily ship rate of 30,000 copies.
- >
- >Forgive me for being a skeptic, but given the humongous splash IBM has
-
- No problem, you're forgiven.
-
- >made about shipping (not selling) one million copies of OS/2 in 135 days
- >(including the full-page ads featuring the opened bottles of champagne),
- >one would expect an item like this to be promoted at a somewhat
- >higher level than "two pros from Dover" at an end-user group meeting.
- >I've yet to see an item like this cross any of the news wires, and
- >I would expect the top OS/2 honchos to be shouting something like this
- >from the rooftops - using bullhorns. I certainly would be, if I were
- >them. I'll keep scanning the newswires, though.
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- I don't believe this is out of character for IBM.
-
- Bert.
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