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From: eyckmans@imec.be (Michel Eyckmans (MCE))
Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Message-ID: <1996Apr2.110541.8644@imec.be>
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References: <4j6msk$ho@darkstar.my.lan> <DovMp4.765@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> <stephenkDp5xr1.69v@netcom.com> <4joi3n$bvb@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:05:41 GMT
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In article <4joi3n$bvb@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>, Thomas.Weihrich@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE (Thomas Weihrich) writes:
|> stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) writes:
|>
|> >Let's assume that many of those linux users are high end users(likely, given
|> >the nature of the beast), and that they have friends/acquaintances/business
|> >associates/bosses/people under them. ALL the above groups may decide NOT to
|> >buy matrox!
|>
|> You still don't get it ...
He may not get your point, but equally, you are not getting his. His claim
is that a considerable section of these linux users have influence on the
purchase decisions in their organisation, *even* if the those decisions
are not linux related.
I for one, have in the past enquired about certain pieces of hardware for
home linux use. Some vendors (that *are* in the home market, but not
apparently wholeheartedly) seem to have thought at the time that I wasn't
worth replying (or replying properly) to, because I was interested in linux
and/or because I didn't provide an office address. The bad luck for them is
that I *do* have influence on what hardware/software gets bought here at
work (and we may be buying a lot before the year is out), and in my book
these guys have now been blacklisted. Linux or no linux.
So the message is: treat your (potential) customers well, whoever they are,
for you never know who they really are.
MCE
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