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From: mls@mhuxu.UUCP (Michael Siemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Report on the Expo
Summary: the industry be damned
Message-ID: <8002@mhuxu.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 88 03:27:55 GMT
References: <639@stech.UUCP> <4710@claris.UUCP> <8189@cup.portal.com> <15@calmasd.GE.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <15@calmasd.GE.COM>, jnp@calmasd.GE.COM (John Pantone) writes:

> A little harsh, aren't we Jerry?  I think that you will find agreement
> among most people in the industry (and particularly those in the
> media) that Vaporware is software announced, and slipped.

From the standpoint of the CUSTOMER, vaporware is indeed anything we have
been told about (to pre-empt interest and of course -- the producer hopes --
commitments to something else) that we can't get, and can't even get a
reliable date for.  The media, given often special "preannouncement" info
are in at least as damnable a postion on this as the rest of the bloody
"industry."

Or doesn't the customer count for anything but his sucker value?
-- 
Michael L. Siemon
contracted to AT&T Bell Laboratories
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