Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!jwhitnell From: jwhitnell@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Report on the Expo Message-ID: <8189@cup.portal.com> Date: 16 Aug 88 18:24:27 GMT References: <639@stech.UUCP> <4710@claris.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 17 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.3098 Dennis Cohen writes... |Informix told me the same thing at this show as they did at the SF Expo in |January -- that they plan to ship the product by end of third quarter. Since |they haven't yet slipped a delivery date, I believe that the appellation of |"vaporware" is undeserved. VaporWare is anything annouced but not yet shipped. Hence Wingz is definitly vaporware. It doesn't matter whether they've slipped a delivery date or not. And it's the worst sort of vaporware, a company's first product. You have no idead whether or not they will ship on time or a year late or whether they'll go out of business before they ship. That is what is wrong with vaporware annoucments. It's the old IBM ploy of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). -- Jerry Whitnell jwhitnell@cup.portal.com