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Roger Perkins  
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 More options Mar 28 1997, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: Roger Perkins <rl...@ibm.net>
Date: 1997/03/28
Subject: Re: OS/2 is Infoworld Reader's Choice winner!
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StripThis Beldraen wrote:

> Roger Perkins <rl...@ibm.net> wrote:

> >OS/2 was voted the Infoworld 1996 Reader's Choice Product of the Year
> >award for an unprecedented fifth year in a row!  This is per an email
> >Nick Petreley wrote me.

> Can anyone find a link to the awards, please?

> Bel, the mostly sane...

> Eagles may fly, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines.

There is no link, yet.  I just received a short reply from Sandy Reed
regarding my complaint: (aw, what the heck! Here's the ENTIRE email
thread!  Enjoy!) [Sorry about the horrible formatting... I don't quite
know how to correct it.)

Subject:
       Re: Reader's Choice Awards
   Date:
       Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:46:22 -0700
  From:
       "Sandy Reed"<Sandy_R...@infoworld.com>
    To:
       rl...@ibm.net

For the full story, read my column in the March 31 issue of InfoWorld.
Sandy Reed

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Please respond to rl...@ibm.net

To:   Nicholas Petreley/IWP
cc:   Sandy Reed/IWP
Subject:  Re: Reader's Choice Awards

What a shame and a sham!  This is akin to PC Magazine not publishing the
Top 15
Software Titles when OS/2 made the list several months in a row!  Did
OS/2
users finagle those figures, too?

Readers and advertizers alike are led to believe IW (Infoworld) has a
vast
audience consisting of qualified IS professionals.  With that in mind,
let's
look at alternatives for the scenario you outlined:

 1. Low voter turnout
   a. IW's web page audience is very low?
   b. Few people are interested in the topic?

 2. OS/2 wins the majority of votes
   a. IW's web page audience still believes OS/2 is a superior product?
   b. Voters lied through their teeth just to frustrate IW?
   c. The majority of IW's web page audience uses OS/2 based solutions?

I'm impressed IW considers OS/2 users have the clout to purposely
influence such a vote, but saddened its editors are such conspiracy
theorists.  What if it had gone three votes in favor of NT or W95? Would
IW have printed the results with sad lament for OS/2?
(See
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchives.pl?dt_IWE13-96_82.htm)

Surely these votes were not secret? Surely IW could scour its database
to see what titles the voters have entered on their registration forms?
Surely IW can put two and two together and see that IS is not buying the
MS BS?  Maybe I ask too much?

So Sandy Reed is going to take up the "OS/2 won again, but..."  mantle
from
Stewart Alsop??? I'm glad they didn't ask or persuade you to do it, at
least, Nick.
(See
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchives.pl?dt_data13_9.htm,
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/96/13/o13-13.106.htm)

I'm going to write Stewart at Fortune, just to nag him about OS/2
again.  I trust the news will give him indigestion!

BTW, here's to OS/2's 10th Anniversary on April 2nd! No OS has ever died
so many times!

Roger Perkins

Nicholas Petreley wrote:

> Roger,

> Peggy may not be dealing with this issue anymore.  For what it's worth, I
> think only about 400 people voted on the reader's choice awards, and OS/2
> won as overall product of the year again.  However, I don't think we're
> printing any of the reader's choice awards this year, partly based on the
> low turnout, and partly based on the assumption (or conclusion) that the
> selection of OS/2 was the result of an OS/2 user campaign to make it win
> again, and therefore doesn't really accurately statistically reflect our
> readers' opinions.   This is the latest I've heard, but there may be more
> or less to this story.  I believe Sandy Reed is going to address thisissue
> in a column.

> -Nick

> Please respond to rl...@ibm.net

> To:   Nicholas Petreley/IWP
> cc:   Peggy Wallace/IWP
> Subject:  Re: Reader's Choice Awards

> Nicholas Petreley wrote:

> > Roger,

> > I don't have any idea about how that is being handled.  I'll pass this

on > > to Peggy Wallace, who may know.

> > -Nick

> > Please respond to rl...@ibm.net

> > To:   Nicholas Petreley/IWP
> > cc:
> > Subject:  Reader's Choice Awards

> > I've been checking in here nearly every day, hoping to see the results
> > of your Reader's Choice voting.  Are the votes tabulated yet?  When
will
> > they be public??  It certainly was an interesting mix of posts on the
> > forum before it was pulled...

> > Roger

> I never did get a response from Peggy on this, but judging from last
> year, the results should be forthcoming in next week's issue, no?  Care
> to give me advance notice?  (My paper copies seem to be coming on
> Fridays now, 4 days late!)

> Roger Perkins


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