Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway
Chip Copeland (analyst@wirelesscabl.com)
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 15:03:52 -0400
From: "Chip Copeland" <analyst@wirelesscabl.com> To: <roundtable@cni.org> Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 15:03:52 -0400 Message-Id: <19980505185745.AAA7767@chip.caiwireless.net>
On Mon, May 04, 1998, Ted Kircher <kircher@realtime.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/5/98, Chip Copeland <analyst@wirelesscabl.com> wrote:
> >
> > You have the choice to buy a Mac.
>
> Chip, I would hope that would be a pragmatic choice, but - in spite of the
> tremendous efforts of Steve Jobs - I doubt it for most companies or
> consumers.
>
> As an example, the Graduate School of Business at the Univ of Texas (UT)
> recently made the decision to provide Dell laptops (guess what operating
> system?) to all of its MBA students to better prepare them for the
> transition
> to the 'real' world. *Minor* factors were because Dell is a local company
> in the Austin area (hence a good discount) or that Michael attended UT
> (although I doubt if he graduated - similar to Bill ... at Harvard).
>
> Btw, UT is a Mac dominated campus for the general mix of undergraduates
> (so far!).
The fact is however, there is a choice and it's not Microsoft who is the
reason that Apple is in the shape it is in concerning corporate sales.
I'm not a pro or anti Microsoft, I just don't see how the current state
of information technology is all their doing. A lot of business
decisions went into creating this situation. I really don't think that
massive anti trust actions will solve any actual or perceived problems
either. The current efforts and successes of Steve Jobs seem to
indicate that a better product brought to the market could create the
next Bill Gates.
Chip Copeland
<analyst@wirelesscabl.com>
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