re sgi sales practices was crimson was kubota announcement in article rr c u calvin nyu edu roy mchip med nyu edu roy smith writes what s really interesting is that from what i can tell the mis folks in the basement with their es don t seem to be pissed at ibm why i have no idea either ibm really does take care of their customers better or they just have their customers brainwashed better than the smaller vendors do no mis folks have infinite budgets of death and they also get parts of their budget allocated upgrades maintenance and new purchases and a lot of ibm mainframe purchases are actually leases and so is the software basically the engineers who have tight budgets i e the coders and designers of a company bitch and moan when they drop on a sparc only to see a faster machine appear a year later mis types upgrade once every years and their costs are amortized and depreciated over a longer period and the budget office justifies the expense because they actually use the machines for accounting payroll etc now if the budget office was dependant on the engineers for some reason like payroll and accounts you d sure as hell see every engineer with a new cray on his desktop every year brian
