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At 04:29 PM 1/3/98 -0800, Randal Whittle wrote: >One final note: > > PEP appears to be a very different outfit than they were a year or two ago >when they annoyed us all with their blatant advertising on the list. Their >new salesman, Leonard, has been most helpful in allowing us to do this and >upgrading my machine free of charge so I could do the benchmarks and report >to the list about the results. > > And when this question about "OK, cut through the numbers crap--was the >upgrade worth it?" was posed, my first reaction was, "Well, I don't want to >bias the results with my opinion--just let the numbers speak for >themselves." I wrote Leonard and told him what my truthful opinion >was--which you see in my note above. I didn't want to convey that to the >list because it seemed ungrateful to all they had given us to do this. >Leonard's reaction? "Tell them the truth." > > Now if you ask me, that's integrity--because he knew the truth was less >than flattering to their upgrade product. The previous sales guy who used >to infect our TP list used to tout claims of "Pentium-level performance" >(and we now know that claim is a pile of manure). > > If that integrity is any indication of how things have changed at PEP, I'd >have to re-think my prior negative impression of them. No agenda--just >honesty. I was surprised and relieved because I really felt a conflict in >providing these results. I was determined to remain unbiased and >honest--and I was. the numbers you see in the benchmarks are the >gosh-awful truth and are not monkeyed with. > FWIW, Leonard has been a participant for quite a while on the TP forum on CompuServe where people who are out-of-line are rather quickly squashed by the sysops. I don't think I've ever seen any complaints about him or PEP posted to the sysops.