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PR: GETTING THE STORY STRAIGHT (re: Information Week story)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM)
Thu Mar 14 20:00:17 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 15 Mar 1996 00:21:18 GMT
From: tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM
Reply-To: nobody@mit.edu
Source: Warped News
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GETTING THE STORY STRAIGHT
In response to an inaccurate article on p. 26 of the February 26 issue of
Information Week, John W. Thompson (general manager for IBM's Personal
Software Products Division) mailed the attached letter to the Editor-in-Chief
of Information Week. Joseph C. Panettieri was author of the article.
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February 28, 1996
Mr. Joel Dreyfuss
Editor in Chief
Information Week
600 Community Drive
Manhasset, NY 11030
Dear Mr. Dreyfuss:
After reading your publication's 2/26 story regarding CompUSA and OS/2
Warp, I had to wonder why it was published. Not only did multiple IBM
officials explain to your reporter that his story was wrong, but a
high-ranking CompUSA executive very clearly said that the story was
"completely inaccurate," and that no-one at CompUSA has given IBM a
deadline. I'm left wondering what it takes for InformationWeek to
decide a source is wrong.
So I will reiterate: IBM has not been given any deadlines for OS/2
sales by CompUSA. We work with them on an ongoing basis -- as do most
software companies -- on ways to increase retail sales of OS/2,
especially this coming quarter as we roll out OS/2 Warp Server.
Further, CompUSA just added Stardock's Object Desktop and Galactic
Civilizations, both popular OS/2 Warp titles, to its retail lineup.
I would appreciate it if you would run a correction to your story in the
next issue of InformationWeek.
Sincerely,
J.W. Thompson
General Manager, Personal Software Products Division
IBM Corporation
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