| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 829.1 | I vote no! | DNEAST::STARIE_DICK | I'd rather be skiing | Mon Jun 05 1989 09:08 | 17 |
| I don't think it belongs in this conference or in any public conference
I have seen both product announcements and retirements that were
apparently leaked to customers, and in both cases a negative impact
on sales was the apparent result.
I personaly heard a DEC salesman tell a customer "wait for the Microvax
II that is going to come out next qtr" This well meaning tidbit
helped kill microvax I prematurely. (this was reported thru channels
at the time)
Discussions like this have little gain and great risk.
(One guys opinion)
dick
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| 829.2 | | CVG::THOMPSON | Protect the guilty, punish the innocent | Mon Jun 05 1989 10:12 | 7 |
| Answering the question "are MV IIs going away" is not appropriate
for this conference but I don't think that that is being asked my
the author of .0. How we handle rumors like this may be but this
spicific one might be better handled in the marketing conference
at ASIMOV::MARKETING (KP7 etc).
Alfred
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| 829.3 | When is a rumor not a rumor? When it's announced! | HOCUS::KOZAKIEWICZ | Shoes for industry | Mon Jun 05 1989 10:16 | 10 |
|
I don't know about the uVAX II or the 3200, but the VS2000 phase-down
was announced in the April 17 Sales Update, which means customers
should know.
o Last order date June 30, 1989
o Part numbers moved to maintenance-only July 5, 1989
Al
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| 829.5 | what i meant... | SLDA5::DUNAISKY | Freedom isn't free. | Tue Jun 06 1989 00:05 | 36 |
| let me quickly clarify my question:
re: .1
.0 was taken from a public (i.e. *not* Digital internal) bulletin board
- it has already been seen by many, many customers, competitors, etc.
(whether or not that still makes it o.k. to put the "rumor" here is up for
discussion - but not here - and left to the moderators judgement).
re: .2
a related question (but not the original [see below]): how do we handle
rumors like these?
re: .3
ahah... the 2000 phasedown was internally published (and the knowledge
is available to customer's that ask, i guess?)...
re: .4
that's the truth as you and i know it, but my question really was meant
to ask: don't the customer's just hear "MicroVAX 2000's are obselete!"
- and probably from uncomplementary sources - if all we do is announce
it to a limited group of people first? and on top of that negative
publicity, the message could get slightly changed (ever hear of the
telephone game?) if it wasn't clearly released, and even more negative
publicity could result... am i just being a pessimist? fill me in on
what really happens!...
moderator - write lock this if you agree it should go in the MARKETING
notesfile.
thanks for the replies,
Jonathan
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