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On Tue, 6 Jun 1995 06:45:12 -0500 you wrote: >If I had to guess why IBM is going to magazine editors, I'd say it's because >IBM is still trying to shed the skin of the corporate DP shop mentality >where everything is hush-hush until it is ready to roll out, only to find >that what was made didn't even come close to what was needed. I thought this wasn't mentality but a legal edict that came about from the anti-trust suits against IBM a couple decades back. Although IBM managed to "win" in that it wasn't broken up like AT&T, didn't it have some restrictions placed on it, like not being able to pre-announce products to keep people from buying a competitor's product which is available right now, much like a major software company does so successfully right now? It would also tend to explain why IBM sells a few new thinkpads months before production is up to full speed. _______________________________________________________________________ |\ ______________________________________________________________________\ | | | | | John H. Kim "Just try telling the IRS you don't feel like | | | jokim@mit.edu 'contributing' this year come April" - Bob Dole | | | jokim@uni.uiuc.edu on Bill Clinton's avoidance of the word "taxes." | \|_______________________________________________________________________|