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Welcome back Sandy!

Posted by: w nau
Date posted: Wed, 18 Jun 1997

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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