Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Craig Koller
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 02:14

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Joseph Coughlan (josco@eco.arc.nasa.gov) wrote:

: From Ziff's Web page.

: PowerPC/NT combination targets the enterprise
: By Stephanie LaPolla
: ...
: "The combination of PowerPC and NT is unlikely to succeed," said Scott Winkler,
: vice president of operating system research at Gartner Group Inc., in Stamford,
: Conn. "But if there is to be a RISC success, it will be on Alpha. There will be
: a lack of NT/Alpha software for a long time. Users who want a broad base of
: software will go with the Intel platform."

The Gartner Group?  Ya, they're about as objective as DataQuest.  Gartner's 
the same group that said that Adobe Premiere 4.0 for Windows marked the 
leveling of the platforms for multimedia authoring (Mac vs. PC).  Give me a 
big, fat whomping break.

Let's face it, Apple is the outcast and these groups are paid simply to 
spout the suit party line.  You might as well quote MS press releases for 
similarly objective content.
-- 
                                             ckoller@netcom.com

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