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In article <1995Mar20.144219.28434@taylor.infi.net>, 
   mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark Davis) writes:

|> To boot, ODT can run
|> >windoze but in the infinite wisdom of new grand poobas, the guide
|> >requires a 386 processor.  IT CANNOT BE RUN ON THEIR OWN OPERATING
|> >SYSTEM.  Yet had they used thier operating system as a start point,
|> >the guide would have run on both platforms.(SCO Propoganda)  Actions
|> >like this lend little credability to their committment or knowledge
|> >of the marketplace.
|> 
|> There was a BIG clatter about the product guide fiasco in biz.sco.general
|> several months ago.  I was one of the people screaming loudly about the
|> apparent stupidity of having a SCO Directory not available for running under
|> SCO.  It was indicated that perhaps they were going to work
|> on a Unix compatible version..... but still!!!!  I think all companies make
|> stupid mistakes sometimes (like the above), the big question is how do they
|> deal with it and/or correct them.  

Although apparently stupid to you and I, who both already have SCO systems,
SCO doesn't need to convince us of the superiority of SCO versus other
operating systems. So, from a purely marketing perspective, it makes more
sense to produce an applications guide in a format that will reach a maximum
number of people. That way, when they see all the goodies available for SCO
systems, they'll be tempted to switch.

Certainly, it was idiotic to produce a guide simply in Windoze format, when
you would also want to distribute it to your SCO users, but marketing folks
sometimes lack common sense when it comes to matters such as these.


MD
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