Laurette your right, the information was "clearly ... several years old"... like me a bit long in the tooth... maybe a bit crazy and maybe too mad to even imagine that any company would ever...
...remove support / development for a product in order to get the user base to move to a completely different product / direction ?
...change their "clear product message?"
...make interesting strategic IT decisions
...FUD, was apparently defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company, FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products.
Good irony, don't shoot the organ grinder or the monkey for that matter, I like monkeys
P.S By the way how's it going at IBM, do they still have those multi plasma screens and themed lunchtimes (I always liked their chinese lunch hot special) :-}
Laurette your right, the information was "clearly ... several years old"... like me a bit long in the tooth... maybe a bit crazy and maybe too mad to even imagine that any company would ever...
...remove support / development for a product in order to get the user base to move to a completely different product / direction ?
...change their "clear product message?"
...make interesting strategic IT decisions
...FUD, was apparently defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company, FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products.
Good irony, don't shoot the organ grinder or the monkey for that matter, I like monkeys
P.S By the way how's it going at IBM, do they still have those multi plasma screens and themed lunchtimes (I always liked their chinese lunch hot special) :-}