At 4:47 AM -0400 5/25/98, Peter Galbavy wrote:
from Mickeysoft promoting the "No one ever got fired for buying M$" message. NT is a >corporate< product. This, in my view, means that
This strategy worked fairly well for IBM selling mainframes. Its the way to sell to morons. They aren't going to understand the technology well enough to make an informed, intelligent choice, so you convince them they will be "safe" buying your product. Of course, IBM was selling to business managers who didn't know anything about computers. Does Microsoft think they will be selling this kind of networking gear to people who don't know anything about networks? (They've made such mistakes before. MS Bob comes to mind, here) Somehow, I think networking is and will remain hard enough that there won't be very many such idiots in the networking marketplace. I concede that this might be an unreasonable expectation however. --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean@av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP/DCE http://www.av8.com We Make IT Fly! (617)242-3091 x246 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++