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   Mark Zenier was espousing about 'Re: archive server for pa',
   on [10-04-92  03:31] to All!
 MZ> At one time, there was a service called VideoLog that was
 MZ> piggybacked on one of the commercial services. (Compu$erve?).
 MZ> There are also CD Rom systems if you have a couple of kilobucks.

    What for the CD?  CD-ROMS drives are $200-$400 of course the
    software may be a different matter.

 MZ> In case you've missed the trend in the past decade or so, towards
 MZ> "Closer Customer Relationships", "Just in Time", and the rest of that
 MZ> package,  "They" don't want a lot of little customers, just big
 MZ> ones.  The money for sales support is going to go to the the things
 MZ> that make money.  And if this means ignoring a lot of small customers 
 MZ> in favor of a few big ones, well ...

    Actually thier big market is DISTRIBUTERS who mark things up
    for the little customers and provide a lot less support.

 MZ> Maybe they figure that if you don't have a couple of kilobucks to
 MZ> buy the CD Rom system, you aren't going to spend enough to be worth
 MZ> their while.

    This is what I call warm brown taste in mouth relations.  BAD
    all around.  What happens when the "little" guy becomes big?
    And they DON'T want to deal with them?  What goes around
    comes around alienated companies are "entities" run by
    poeple.  If you jerk the company you jerk the poeple.  This
    means those poeple WILL not deal with the company ussually
    again.  I've seen MANY poeple do this.

        Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
        Scripted at Mon  10-05-1992  17:39:37

... When you spit in the wind it comes right back at you.
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