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Colin "Sybil" Crawford (1/12/99)
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Okay, so what really happened with Windows workstation vendor Intergraph at last week's Macworld Expo? As late as this past Sunday afternoon, a Computer Reseller News article claimed that Intergraph had been expelled from the Expo for violating certain guidelines set down by the Expo gods-- namely, that Intergraph would only be allowed to show their NT servers being accessed by Mac clients. When Intergraph instead showed off their all-NT solutions, Expo bigwigs gave them the boot-- or so the story went.
But on Monday a MacWEEK article claimed that the whole story was nothing but a rumor. They quote Mac Publishing LLC CEO Colin Crawford as saying that "Intergraph... was a welcomed exhibitor and participated in the Macworld Expo." He goes on to say that "Intergraph... and myself have always worked well together... We look forward to working together in the future." Fair enough. Except that the CRN article about Intergraph's expulsion also quoted Colin Crawford. And in that article, he says that "it was unethical of [Intergraph]... They were warned and now they have been banned."
So what's the deal, here? There are any number of standard soap opera plot devices that could explain Crawford's mysterious flip-flop: long-lost evil twin, multiple personality disorder, amnesia (always a favorite!), zombie attacks, abduction by aliens and replacement on earth by an alien-hybrid clone, etc. Take your pick. Personally, though the abduction scenario holds a particular soft spot in our collective AtAT heart, we're betting that Lawyer Intervention had a lot to do with it. Betcha that the Crawford quotes in the CRN article were never meant to be made public, and Crawford's subsequent "we love Intergraph" litany was made to help ward off a lawsuit. Or then there's always the possibility that Crawford was killed in a car accident and replaced with a surgically-altered double to avoid alarming his fans-- we'll have to look for clues on Crawford's next few albums.
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Other scenes from that episode: 1262: The Next Big Thing (1/12/99) So your New Year's resolution was to stick to your budget and not to break down and spend thousands of dollars on newly-released Apple equipment that you really don't need just yet. Then the Yosemites were unveiled, pictures of the new "El Capitan" casings were widely circulated around the 'net, and you found yourself glancing with more and more distaste towards your old beige Mac... 1264: Duelling MIT Economists (1/12/99) Finally, it's Microsoft's turn to bat in the ongoing courtroom drama known to us all as "Redmond Justice." The government finished up with its twelve witnesses today when the last of them, MIT economist Franklin Fisher, testified in a closed-door session that Microsoft set Windows pricing in ways intended to crush competitors and reward computer manufacturers that agreed to help Microsoft maintain its alleged stranglehold on the market...
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