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Re: All this OS/2 is dead talk.

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From: Mustafa Soysal MS57
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 00:00
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In article <AuqOzsbnbNgF089yn@ibm.net>, James Knott <jamesk@ibm.net> wrote:
>In article <5hc191$nct@client3.news.psi.net>,
>os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>>In article <c0.9w.2FWJlz$036@picard.cds-inc.com>,  <replyto> wrote:
>>>In <5h7kkq$69s@client3.news.psi.net>, os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) writes:
>>>>>small office/home office market as well as the consumer market, but OS/2
>>>>>came from an organization that has always been devoted to developing
>>>>>products for the big corporate market.    Small businesses have little use
>>>>>for things like Communications Manager/2, or CICS/2, for example.   The
>>>>
>>>>You have no idea what small businesses have a use for.
>>>
>>>Uh, I think I do.  I'm a 50% partner in one small business, I associate
>>>with three other owners of small businesses, and I've worked for quite
>>>a few small businesses in the past.  I think it is you who has no
>>>idea what small businesses have a use for.  To be perfectly clear,
>>>I define a small business as one with 50 employees or less and less
>>>than $10 mil revenue per year.
>>
>>And you still don't know what you can do with Communications Manager/2
>>or CICS for a small business?  I think you are the partner that doesn't
>>run the business or decides about these matters.
>
>Unless a company is using an AS/400 or IBM mainframe, they'll not have much 
>use for Communications Manager/2.

Unless a service they could be using is using AS/400.....how
shortsighted of IBM...

Best Regards,

Mustafa Soysal

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From: os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57)
Subject: Re: All this OS/2 is dead talk.
Date: 1997/03/28
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