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Guerilla Sales Tactics (2/17/98)
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Just how different can Apple think? According to Don Crabb in a MacCentral "Rumor Reality Report," pretty darn different indeed. In an attempt to bypass the "No Macs Allowed" purchasing policies becoming more and more common in the corporate world these days, Apple's teamed with a couple of third-party resellers to paint its G3 Powermacs as Unix workstations-- which are often much more welcome in many companies.
The G3 Unix Workstation, currently offered by Hughes Data Systems and SciTech International, is a standard Powermac G3 bundled with Tenon's PowerMachTen version of Unix for PowerPC, as well as Connectix's VirtualPC and your favorite and mine-- Mac OS 8.1. Since the system is not sold as a Mac, or as an Apple system, and most big companies don't question the purchase of Unix workstations, your purchase order may slide right through your ordering department. And no, this isn't dishonest: the PPC 750 in the Powermac runs Tenon's Unix formidably; it just happens to run the Mac OS pretty darn well, too, not to mention Windows. Sounds like a dream come true for a mixed-platform environment. If you want more information on this delicious loophole, head on over to the Joint Solutions Website.
This is not a rumor-- these boxes are available now, according to Brian T. Coleman of Apple's Business Development Marketing Group. And while we're a little concerned that the only way some people can smuggle Macs into their workplace is to run Unix on them, we've got to admire the way that Apple's selling Macs to people who want to buy them-- any way they can. Next, we propose that Apple launch a few "spin-off" companies to sell computers to corporate buyers. For names, may we suggest Gaitway 3000, Bell, and Compak?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/17/98 episode: February 17, 1998: The hills are alive with whispers of how camouflaged Macs are creeping undetected into Apple-hostile territory by speaking Unix with nary an accent. Meanwhile, Oracle is still eyeing FileMaker Pro and preparing to pounce, and no one but Intel could be behind the recent publicity surrounding the x86 performance bug, in an attempt to downplay the PowerPC's dominance...
Other scenes from that episode: 460: Oracle Still Looms (2/17/98) The initial rumors of Oracle sniffing around Claris' popular FileMaker Pro database product seemed to come to naught; instead of selling off the application, Apple recently stripped Claris of all its products except for FileMaker and Home Page, laid off several hundred employees, and rechristened the remains "FileMaker, Inc."... 461: Wow, Man, the Colors... (2/17/98) This just in: another conspiracy theory from a faithful viewer whom we'll keep anonymous to protect his welfare. Let's just call him, oh, I don't know... how about Brian Pickerill? Anyway, "Brian" reveals the real...
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