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