NT*Pro - SPECIAL "TOWN MEETING"

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  > From: Marty Schuchman <MartyS@SpectrumTech.com>
  > To: Marty Schuchman <MartyS@SpectrumTech.com>
  > Subject: NT*Pro - SPECIAL "TOWN MEETING"
  > Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 12:09:16 -0500
  > 
  > SPECIAL "TOWN MEETING"
  > Thursday November 13, 1997
  > Noon - 1:00 PM
  > Omni Sheraton Hotel, Garbo Room
  > 2500 Calvert Street
  > Washington, DC
  > (near the Woodley Park/National Zoo Metro stop)
  > 
  > Fellow NT*Pro members,
  > 
  > I'm breaking our "one piece of e-mail a month" rule, because I feel 
  > there is a very important issue in front of us. I want to personally 
  > invite you to attend this FREE "town meeting" where a select panel will 
  > speak to the issues from the true consumer point-of-view. Your 
  > attendance and participation at this meeting is vital for its success. 
  > 
  > If you appreciate the contribution that NT*Pro makes in your computing 
  > life, PLEASE mark November 13 @ Noon on your calendar. 
  > 
  > Some of you may have heard about Ralph Nader's conference:  
  > "Appraising Microsoft and Its Global Strategy" which is being held at 
  > the Omni Shoreham Hotel on November 13th and 14th. To see what Nader 
  > has planned, see www.appraising-microsoft.org.
  >       
  > Ralph Nader claims to represent consumers. As someone who actually
  > understands the technology and is a PC and Internet user, I think he  
  > is out of touch with what real consumers experience and feel. We are 
  > the true consumers of Microsoft's products, not Nader and the 
  > one-sided panel he has created. I for one am very disappointed that 
  > Ralph Nader presumes to speak for me and others like me who are 
  > technically savvy and really do understand both the issues and the 
  > economics.
  >    
  > THIS IS WHY I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO JOIN ME ON THE FIRST DAY OF 
  > NADER'S CONFERENCE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 AT NOON IN THE GARBO ROOM OF 
  > THE OMNI SHOREHAM HOTEL (2500 CALVERT STREET) FOR A TOWN MEETING TO 
  > TALK ABOUT THE REAL CONSUMER'S PERSPECTIVE.
  >       
  > In my rudimentary understanding of basic economics, I understand that 
  > the laws of supply and demand are a very powerful force in the 
  > business environment and in the computer industry. Professionals and 
  > consumers, like me, vote with our spending dollars. This is my view,   
  > no matter if the company we are discussing is Microsoft, or Sun, or 
  > General Motors, or any other company in a free trade economy. 
  >       
  > Businesses should be free to make decisions about their products and 
  > consumers should be free to make decisions about their purchases. In 
  > this simple equation the consumer holds the upper, and deciding,
  > hand. Millions of consumers have voted to purchase Microsoft 
  > products--almost always when other products (and often dominant and    
  > technically superior products) existed on the marketplace. 
  >     
  > I am a firm believer in the consumers right to make choices in 
  > determing the fortunes of companies who sell products and services to  
  > us. I fully support these companies to make their own best business   
  > decisions and then to let me, as the consumer, freely vote with my 
  > spending dollars. 
  >       
  > Please join NT*Pro members and other real consumers on November 13th. 
  > 
  > Ralph doesn't speak for us!
  > 
  > 
  > Charles Kelly
  > President, NT*Pro
  > Association of Windows NT Systems Professionals, Inc.
  > ckelly@msn.com
  > 
  
  
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  Operator