[WinMac] The Emperor (Jobs) has no clothes


Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:55:01 -0500


        Emperor Jobs has no clothes... What does he have to fear, if his products
are so good to begin with?

        From <http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990106S0008>:

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Technology News
     
Macworld Expo Touchy About NT Exhibits

(01/06/99, 3:28 p.m. ET)

By David Richards, Computer Reseller News

SAN FRANCISCO -- The organizers of Macworld Expo, held here, have stopped
workstation manufacturer Intergraph Computer Systems from displaying
Intel-based systems at its booth.

Intergraph, whose booth is located next to Apple's on the show floor, was
set to demonstrate new Intel Xeon workstations running at 400-MHz and
450-MHz chips on Microsoft Windows NT-based multiprocessor workstations.

Sources said this conflicted with Apple's focus on its next-generation
family of Macintosh G3 desktop systems, which are designed to compete with
NT machines.

"We warned Intergraph prior to arriving that they could only run a
Mac-clone environment running off an Intergraph Windows NT server," said
Colin Crawford, president and CEO of Macworld Expo, a unit of IDG Expo
Management Company. "What they turned up with was Windows NT workstations
expecting to run them in a Mac-only environment. This was a sensitive
issue: Apple didn't want it, I didn't want it, and we had to negotiate on
it."

"It was unethical of them to turn up at a Mac function trying to woo Mac
people to a Windows NT platform," Crawford added. "They were warned and now
they have been banned. It is not our fault." IDG refused to comment.

But an IDG insider who asked not to be named said Intergraph would be
compensated for having to leave because IDG feared a lawsuit. The source
also said IDG enforced a clause in the contract that gave IDG the right to
remove from Macworld anyone it deemed wasn't acting in the interest of the
event. During his keynote Tuesday, Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs boasted
about a powerful new 400-MHz G3 workstation, comparing it to an Intel-based
workstation similar to what Intergraph was planning to demonstrate.

An Intergraph employee, who asked not to be identified, was skeptical about
Jobs' demo.

"I would like to run the demo again on our systems, this time running ours
or SGI's [Silicon Graphics Inc.] proprietary accelerator cards," the
Intergraph employee said. When asked whether it was good business sense to
market NT workstations to Mac users, Macworld's Crawford said, "It may be
smart in their eyes, but I think it is plain dumb at a Mac function. I was
under pressure from Apple, and we had to act."

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