> I believe that you are "Preaching to the Choir". Very possibly. On the other hand, you guys write bigger checks to IBM than I do. There are also some quiet people lurking on this list that do have the ear of senior IBMers -- and others -- in ways that I don't. Don't kid yourself -- HP and Sun folks read this list closely.
> but when small to medium companies switch it takes a long time for them to > get the bad taste "of what IBM did to us" out of their mouths. Judging by the continuing reaction to the DECsystem 10 and 20 cancellation and IBM's failed SNA-will-take-over-the-world networking strategy, we've got a long wait coming. HP is *still* paying for DEC cancelling Jupiter way back in 1982, even two companies later.
