I hope you enjoyed you
vacation. Unlike some, I
don't have a problem with you
taking a vacation. One must
seperate pleasure from work.
Not that you're back (work),
I have some questions.
Let me preface this by
telling you that I'm willing
to consider that the first
poll may have been
invalid (I don't disagree
with your conclusion, but
rather with your reasons).
One of the reasons you
invalidated the other poll
was because the results
didn't represent market
share. Why then, don't you
have a problem with WinNT
winning when it has a much
smaller server share than
Novell and a much smaller
overall share than OS/2?
Why do you tell us that "we
feel strongly that this new
poll
accurately reflects the
opinions of InfoWorld and
InfoWorld Electric readers."
when you interviewed only
print subscribers? Please
keep in mind that just
because a print reader is
also an Electric subscriber
doesn't mean that they
represent an Electric
subscriber (please see my
previous reponse to you on a
Tabby being a cat not meaning
that a cat is a Tabby).
More importantly, please
explain to me how you
can claim that I am not part
of your target audience, yet
InfoWorld saw it fit to give
me a free subscription to
your print edition. Why
would you do that if I'm not
part of your target audience?
If I am part of your target
audience why was I (not
personally, but people with
my qualifications) excluded
from your "Reader's Poll"?
Please explain to me why
there would be such a shift
from OS/2 in previous years
to
Windows NT this year when
Rachel tells us that the
previous years polls are up
to your standards.
Please explain how you can
cliam that the new poll is an
accurate representation of
your readership when you
exclued IS professsionals
that work in the IT industry.
I thank you for your
respones. Believe me, I've
many more questions.
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