RE: [WinMac] The Emperor (Jobs) has no clothes


Frankenstein, Paul(Frankens[at]wnet.org)
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:17:33 -0500


Funny, but MacNN disagrees:
 Despite claims made in a TechWeb article, Intergraph was not "kicked out" of
the Expo; the company, however, was required to set up Mac clients and push
"integration" rather than migration.

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> From: Dan Schwartz
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> Subject: [WinMac] The Emperor (Jobs) has no clothes
>
>
> 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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