tslu@oliveb.UUCP (04/05/87)
The following is a summary of two articles from local San Jose
Mercury News, concerning the newly announced IBM Personal System 2
Personal Computers:
* The Model 30 is a JOKE !! They are abandoning the mom-and-pop
stores.
-- Kimball Brown
Computer Industry Analyst, Dataquest Inc. San Jose
* Apple has a minimum of a one-year lead, IBM has a long way to
get where the MAC is now.
-- Eugene Glazer
Computer Stock Analyst
Dean Witter Reynolds, New York City
* IBM's announcements were incomplete, IBM is probably the only
company that could do what they've done. (The software will
not be ready for months.)
It is like General Motors changing all their cars and then
having no gas to put into them.
-- John Sculley
Chairman, Apple Computer
* This year, the sales of Apple's MAC may benefit from the
relatively high price of the Model 30, some analysts say.
-- David Sylvester
Mercury News Business Writer
* They (IBM) really don't seem to have any entry-level machine.
From a strategic business sense, they (IBM) seem to to be
focus on revenues and profits rather than units and market
share.
-- Richard Matlack
President of Infocorp, Cupertino, California