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Article #13449Re: NS32532
From: leder
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1987 18:35
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1987 18:35
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> National is not the only company that announces parts before they are > ready - such announcements are common in the industry. More irksome are > those advertisements that make it sound like the product is already here, when > it is not. Can you say "Microsoft and OS/2?" Sure, I knew that you could... > You know it has to be a tough call for people in marketing to know when to announce a product with the leaders in the industry (read IBM) making announcements for products with six and ten month delivery dates just to keep purchasers from picking a product that is already available. For instance if we look at their most recent announcement, the model 80 which would compete with the COMPAQ machine released (and purchaseable) with the 386 processor was just a comeon to keep their customers in line. I don't see how we could ask National do deal any differently. Bob Leder - Just an interested bystander
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