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    Sounds logical.  At that level the bucks are big, and the parachutes
    are platinum.

	I've seen VPs come and go that made a tempory difference in the
	stock price but never a VP change that changed anything for any
	employee other then their direct reports. VP changes don't concern
	me. Should they?

				Alfred

	... and Ferry's proven record in the services world, it makes sense
Wang would try for someone of his calibur.  He's a good organizer, from what
I've seen.  He was a prime mover of the Software Product Services business
in its start-up days under SWS.

	I'll see what the local management knows of this.

    The rumor is true.  I work for the US EIS IS Data Center at MRO.  I was
    called into a meeting at 13:15 today and advised by Jim Kissane that
    Bill resigned at noon today.  His position at Wang is Sr. VP in charge of 
    applications design, development, & implementation.
    
    dlw

    Who's taking Bill's place?  I heard that Russ Gullotti is but I
    thought Bill worked for Russ.
    
    
    Jodi-
    

	... the organization! :>)

	That's what my DSWM heard, too, when she got the official word.  Unless
he is planning on eliminating those other Country-level managers, I would think
it's an interim thing.

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<SRC> PR - PR Wire <HOT>    <DDAT> 19900823 1240
 
 
 WILLIAM FERRY TO HEAD APPLICATIONS ENGINEERING AT WANG
 
 
  LOWELL, Mass., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- William P. Ferry will join Wang
Laboratories, Inc. (AMEX: WAN) effective Aug. 27, 1990 as senior vice president,
applications, to lead Wang's seven applications engineering teams in their
efforts to deliver industry-specific, application-based solutions that respond
to customer needs in Wang's key markets.
  Ferry had been vice president, enterprise integration services, at Digital
Equipment Corporation.  He was responsible for professional software services,
custom hardware, customer training and systems integration in the United States,
a nearly billion-dollar business with 6,500 employees.
  "Bill Ferry's experience as head of an organization whose role was to create
specific applications for customers, customer groups and markets, and his
success in leading that organization's transition from being technology-driven
to customer-driven is the exact set of skills Wang requires as we refocus our
efforts on customer needs," said Richard W. Miller, Wang's chairman and chief
executive officer.
  At Wang, Ferry will report to Horace Tsiang, executive vice president and
chief development officer, and will be a member of the Worldwide Sales and
Marketing Council.  He assumes a role similar to that held by Ken Olisa, senior
vice president, before Olisa was appointed general manager of Wang's operations
in Europe, Africa and the Middle East in March.
  "We announced that Wang would become a customer-driven organization last
November when we unveiled Operation Customer.  We began our efforts to deliver
on that promise with the reorganization of our research and development
organization and the creation of applications and platform engineering teams in
December.  As head of the applications teams, Bill Ferry will help us to
complete Wang's transition into a completely customer-driven and
customer-responsive organization," stated Tsiang.
  Ferry said, "Wang has always had leadership technology.  With the company's
renewed focus on the customer and its commitment to engineer and deliver
application-based solutions, I am convinced it will succeed in the 1990's.  I
look forward to contributing to Wang's return to its position as an industry
leader."
  A 12-year veteran of Digital, Ferry established the company's entry into the
systems integration business and also melded three separate functions into a
single nationwide organization as vice president, enterprise integration
services.  In a previous position as vice president, U.S. Software Services,
Ferry established applications centers for technology throughout the country and
a field-based applications engineering organization to focus on customer needs.
  His career at Digital began in 1978, where he established the initial plans
and led the development of the worldwide software product services business and
developed the concepts that fostered the creation of enterprise integration
services.  From 1976 through 1978, he was employed by Texas Instruments.
  Ferry received his A.B. in economics, cum laude, from Harvard University and
his M.B.A. in marketing and finance from the Amos Tuck School of Business
Administration at Dartmouth College.  He lives in Framingham, Mass.
  /CONTACT: Ed Pignone, 508-967-4912, or Gail Jackson, 508-967-4144, both of
Wang Labs/
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    Can anyone calibrate as to Ferry's relationship to the recent creation
    of three levels of management within EIS?  If he was the author,
    we may have won more than we lost.  Otherwise, his frustration with
    empire builders could be part of the picture.  Which is it?

	... of both.  I find it kind of strange that they chose him to crank 
up an application generation business given his spotty success in the same 
thing at DEC.  Some successes, true, but the initial organization(s?) didn't 
strike me as having much leadership at any level, nor clear attainable goals.
That's why I speculated earlier that he was picked to revitalize their 
packaged services business, ie, installations, start-up training, system 
support, etc, using the State contract as support.  That's where he made his
mark at DEC. 

	From the other side, in fairness, I'm skeptical of the support he was 
getting from either other high level VP's or even some of his reports in
getting our "integration", and "solution", and "program" business united into 
a cohesive, sellable organization.

    re:  .5
    
    You are correct, Ferry did work for Gullatti, and Russ is taking over
    his responsibilities for the near term.
    
    I got a memo today which came from Dave Grainger and Russ Gullotti
    which said something like this:
    
    We regret to announce that Bill Ferry has accepted a position with 
    another company effective immediately.

    Bill has made a valuable contribution to Digital Equipment Corporation 
    in the last 12 1/2 years;  we will miss his leadership and energy.

    Russ Gullotti will be acting U.S. EIS Manager and working with the U.S. 
    Management Committee during the transition.