Re: Data stream change pushed back to June, 1995!

Tom Kloos ((no email))
Fri, 13 May 94 12:52:45 PDT

Hi all...

>Just called X*press to order the new Windows software. The woman I talked
>to said that both X*press for Windows and Journalist will not be ready
>until the fall. I then asked her what I should do on June 1. She said
>that the date of the changeover had been pushed back to June 1, 1995! Can
>someone else call X*press (1-800-772-6397) and confirm this?
>
>Darryl

Yes. It's true! The decision was actually made several weeks ago.
The story I got from the rep was that "many folks need more time
to budget for money to pay for the new software". *I* interpret
this to mean, 'many schools (the prime "customers") with XTs, or
other platforms that won't be supported any more, rebelled against
having to acquire new hardware to run the new software'.

-Tom Kloos, WS7S, Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., Beaverton, OR tk@sequent.com