From: Ajay Shah (ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu)
Date: 09/28/92 

From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Subject: Great marketing (Was Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?)
Date: 28 Sep 1992 10:55:44 -0700

talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) writes:

>Propaganda? Hell, yes! Look at IBM! Look at Microsoft! They didn't get
>where they are by creating great software and selling it cheap! Of course,
>there's often a fine line between "Quality Marketing" and propaganda. :}

The leader of the Windows NT project is a guy named Dave Cutler
who worked for DEC before this job. He was asked how doing this
project was different from his earlier work. He said ``it's the
same OS, but I've never seen such marketing''.

Really: it's sickening to see the way the peasants are blindly
believing that Windows NT is the ``OS of the future''. This when
it's as certain as plain daylight that Microsoft will never have
a market share as large as what it had in 1987, ever again, even
if Windows NT can ship before end-1993 and it can be free of bugs
and it can be worth using for anyone. Remember these guys tried writing
DOS, Windows, OS/2.

I work hard on educating all the peasants I can find.

        -ans. 

-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu