>>>which no longer means CFOs and corporate IT departments with big budgets and "you can have any color as long as it's black" authority
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>We thought that was true when the TRS-80, Commodore, Apple II were the darlings of the acne set.
>Then the IBM PC came out and corporations jumped all over it (I was told that Malcolm Forbes called John Akers of IBM and ordered 400 after he saw his first IBM PC. Akers reportedly had to apologize. Their entire production sold out the first day and he couldn't tell Malcolm when he'd get them)
>Some of the acne set grudingly followed suit, but many didn't.
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>The retail market and the corporate market occasionally overlap, but not often.
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>Looking at a balance sheet and looking at your daughter's new dog are really two unrelated functions with differing requirements.
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>I follow the small to mid-sized corporate market and most of our clients are too busy worrying about a customer or a key supplier who went bankrupt to deal with gadgets.
>Just the other day, I was talking about photography to the owner of a good sized manufacturing company that uses a lot of tech, and he adked:
>"You have a digital camera? - Are they better than film?"
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>I like Deep Throat's advice:
>"Follow the money!"

Just mentioning that you responded to John's post, not mine....