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In article <paul.nospam-9CD4B4.14080409022011 at pbook.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>In article <00AAA711.A4A8A2F5 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
> VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> There is no WEENDOZE here.  Never had it; never will.  I have never had
>> a need that couldn't be realized on a Mac or Linux or VMS systems.  Why
>> do people insist on tormenting themselves with WEENDOZE?
>
>Microsoft bypassed the technical folks and sold it to upper management.
>
>Different platform, same story:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell#Beyond_NetWare
>
>"However, by 1999, Novell had lost its dominant market position, and was 
>continually being out-marketed by Microsoft, which gained access to 
>corporate data centers by bypassing technical staff and selling directly 
>to corporate executives."
>
>and that was how I got into mainframes in 1980. IBM did a better job 
>than DEC at selling to the board of directors.

    If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, 
    or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church 
    organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten 
    road to his house, though it be in the woods.
    --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poor Ralphie must never have encountered a wine-'em-n-dine-'em marketroid.

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