Another classic comp job

Dennis Boone drb at msu.edu
Mon May 12 14:30:11 CDT 2008


 > What's astonishing is that they refer to EMC's disk arrays as a "cheap,
 > new approach". Today, thirteen years after that article, EMC is the
 > poster child for marketing obsolete way-overpriced technology through
 > FUD intimidation!

Quelle surprise.  EMC was born into a cradle of intimidation, selling
Prime memory boards.  Prime threatened lawsuits, and EMC fought back
with intimidation.  When that wasn't contentious enough, they went after
IBM's mainframe disk market.

Didn't IBM patent FUD? :)

De


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