Gateway 2000:Number one in customer loyalty
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Less validity than the first

Posted by: Ken Hamlett
Date posted: Mon Jun 16 9:48:04 PDT 1997

With the new "survey" there are
so many flaws I don't know where
to begin. I will mention a few
problems and leave the rest
for others to discuss.

The most obvious problem is
mixing hardware and software in
comparisons. This is the big
tipoff that there is some strange
number contortions in the
Infoworld results.

With only 300 people being
surveyed, the results placed
NT products in an unusually high
position. The last numbers I
saw was that NT had only 4,000
licenses sold for all revisions.
(I assume that includes site
licenses also)
Therefore I wonder how many of
those surveyed actually have
used NT (server or client) and
how many just answered based
on media hype and advertising.
I have also noticed in the press
that the latest surveys show
only small business rallying
behind NT. (Rallying?)
Let's face it. Businesses with
the resources will compare for
themselves and will choose the
best product and should be less
swayed by some salesman at
Egghead. So far medium to large
businesses have stayed away from
NT. It seems only small
businesses without technical
expertise and some government
agencies want NT. (They are not
sure why, they just do).
That's marketing.

I have to wonder how many
of those surveyed actually
compared the various products.
NT is coming along as a viable
product but lets get real. On
single processor systems it's
really third rate. As a client
I wonder why anyone would bother,
and as a server there a MUCH
better choices availiable. The
only way the press has shown
NT server to be a winner in any
test is to compare NT on a
multi cpu system to the others
on a single cpu system.
EVEN THEN IT COULDN'T WIN ON
ANYTHING EXCEPT AS AN APP SERVER!
That is more a matter of hardware
than software!
Even in some of these tests
I've noticed what appears to
be unusually poor results for
competing products which I
imagine is a result of improper
tuning of the products.

Let's face it, Infoworld wanted
a specific outcome and they got
it.
In regard to OS/2 users, I wonder
if any even bothered to respond
after being publicly insulted
to a degree that even ZD has
never dared try.

That's my take on your "Survey"
Now we need to see the raw
numbers so we can verify the
Infoworld claims.
Ken Hamlett


That's actually beside the point. (acagle) Mon, 16 Jun
I never even saw a survey! (mbejeran) Mon, 16 Jun
Site licenses (Pete Cacchioli) Mon, 16 Jun

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