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- From: pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping Huang)
- Subject: Re: IBM screws U again
- In-Reply-To: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu's message of 14 Dec 92 19:41:53 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:10:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.194153.8726@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
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- > IBM is to be congratulated on yet another brilliant marketing scheme.
-
- > This is clearly a good example why Windows NT presents such a threat to
- > the upper level OS market. Microsoft might just care about it's customers
- > (unlike Big Blue) and take out the market right out from under them.
-
- Hmm. I don't understand this posting. That IBM is charging high royalty
- fees for XGA-2 technology may not necessarily be a great business
- decision if IBM wants to promote XGA as a standard. However, Radius was
- not forced to purchase IBM chipsets if it did not want to -- I think, if
- anything, IBM has made it much easier to clone the XGA standard than the
- 8514/A or the VGA standards. And I doubt that IBM license fees really
- are responsible for that big a chunk of the expected $500 street price.
- Furthermore, I don't see why this should personally tick you off, as it
- apparently has. If OS/2 2.0 is a good product for you, then it still
- continues to be a good product. I certainly wish IBM had put on stronger
- push amongst 3rd party OEM's to provide OS/2 2.0 drivers for their video
- boards, but that's not what you're flaming about here. And Microsoft
- isn't exactly saintly when it comes to hardware-software tie-ins, either
- -- just look at the bundling deals which it *MAY* have forced on various
- dealers and manufacturers with respect to Windows 3.x and the Microsoft
- Mouse. I expect that Microsoft won't hesitate to use leverage to try and
- promote its new hardware (the Microsoft Sound Board).
-
- Follow-ups to .advocacy, please.
-
- --
- Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@athena.mit.edu), probably speaking for himself
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