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From: jwhitnell@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Report on the Expo
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Date: 16 Aug 88 18:24:27 GMT
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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).

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Jerry Whitnell
jwhitnell@cup.portal.com