[WinMac] Intergraph [WAS: Re: The Emperor (Jobs) has no clothes]

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:10:29 -0500

        Actually, Intergraph is a very large employer and government contractor in
Huntsville, Alabama... They are NOT a VAR or System Integrator. Their
specialty is high end CAD workstations and CAD/CAM software, among other
(unclassified) products. They are also a major supplier for NASA; and they
also make a killer line of video cards.

        Scuttlebutt has it that Intel will be buying them out...

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 06:59 PM 1/10/99 -0500, Captain Kirk wrote:
>While I usually try not to participate in these types of things, one thing
>everyone needs to be aware of is that Intergraph is marketing a line of
>workstations called ExtremeZ to graphic arts professionals that competes
>directly against the Mac. Their director of marketing was even quoted in
>MacAddict of all places pushing NT. In fact, I doubt Intergraph even sells
>Macs. (I tried to search their web site but I got a "File
>d:\search\new.idq. Not enough storage is available to complete this
>operation. " Sounds suspiciously like an NT error.) I attended a prepress
>seminar they gave regarding integrating Windows with a Mac production
>workflow which consisted mostly of advice to replace all your Macs with
>Extreme Z stations (even though, as I remember, Adobe Type Manager was not
>even released for NT yet at that time). And I would dare to say that
>Intergraph (along with most VARs/System Integrators) would rather sell you
>a Windows Workstation or Server, and an expensive service/support contract,
>as opposed to Macs which can usually be fixed fairly easily.
>
>Having not seen the Intergraph booth, I can't say what was so
>objectionable, but from their product line and marketing, I can well
>imagine...
>
>Sorry to perpetuate this thread...
>
>I am working with an NT Workstation to output prepress files, and it is
>well behaved. And we have an Intergraph NT server that is reasonably well
>behaved... Now if I can only get our NT WWW server to cooperate...
>
>Lewis Kirk
>captkirk@dmzgraphics.com
>http://www.dmzgraphics.com

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