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From: "Mark E. Ingram"
Subject: Mac-vs-IBM
A few months back I posted a narrative describing a situation in which a
Mac graphics and marketing department was under siege from an Information
Services (IS) department insistent on forcing a switch to PeeCee's. Many
thanks to a considerable number of Info-Mac readers who were kind enough
to respond.
The enclosed archive, Mac_vs_IBM_Summary.sit.hqx, summarizes this saga,
and includes an ASCII text version of the polished PageMaker report -
Final Arguments.txt - that was developed to counter the arguments of the
IS department. Overall - despite *heavy* and somewhat underhanded
opposition and surreptitious maneuvering by IS - the effort was a success,
as most of the hardware items in the proposal, below (including a PowerMac
9500!), were ultimately approved for purchase.
(Note to archive moderators: The two MacWeek supporting articles are used
with the express permission of Ziff-Davis Publishing.)
Mark E. Ingram
mingram@mail.orion.org | or | 101-8673@MCIMail.com