🚀 go-pugleaf

idacrd!desj@uunet.UU.NET (David desJardins) writes
> Frankly, I think that those companies whose marketing-oriented and
> hype-filled press releases get posted generally do themselves more harm
> than good.  I certainly wouldn't worry that they are getting some kind
> of business advantage.

Agreed.  The words that really kill Fujitsu in that press release are
"September 1993".  IMO, this is a strong indication that a manager
told the marketroids "we're a year away from getting it into
commercial production", where a year is management-speak for some
large but indeterminate amount of time, and they took him literally.
They should have chosen August or October 1993, on the same principle
that user-visible limits in a software package should always be powers
of 2, not multiples of 10.  It makes the author look less stupid :-)

Jonathan H.