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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

1592.0. "Grainger/Nortz???" by POBOX::MULLIGAN () Thu Sep 12 1991 15:51

    Any truth to the new "rumor" that Grainger and Nortz have left DEC?
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1592.1Lowell, MA.DENVER::DAVISGBThe Cat's purrin' !!Thu Sep 12 1991 17:493
    I heard that Nortz went to Wang.
    
    
1592.2Latest from ELF...ALOSWS::SCHICKEDANZThere ARE no guarantees...Thu Sep 12 1991 18:5012
Page: 1                        Find an Employee             ELF Infobase: MLOELF

Common Name:   DAVID GRAINGER
Search Surname:  GRAINGER  Search Given Name:  DAVID  DTN:  276-8016
Intrnl Mail Addr:  OGO1-1/M2  Location:  OGO  Node:  SONATA
Username:  DGRAINGER  Org Unit:  OEM/VAR BUSINESS GROUP,  Sales and Services
Position:  Vice President
                                                                                
Common Name:   RICHARD NORTZ
Search Surname:  NORTZ  Search Given Name:  RICHARD,  RICHARD A
DTN:  297-5146  Intrnl Mail Addr:  MRO3-1/L17  Location:  MRO  Node:  MCIS3
Username:  RNORTZ  Org Unit:  DIGITAL SRVCS - US CS
1592.3ELF > realityFUNYET::ANDERSONVMS: First and Last and AlwaysThu Sep 12 1991 23:324
ELF lists people who are long since gone, so I wouldn't rely on an ELF listing
to show that someone still works here.

Paul
1592.4COOKIE::LENNARDRush Limbaugh, I Luv Ya GuyFri Sep 13 1991 13:213
    Doesn't surprise me about Grainger.....he was clearly put out to
    pasture a few months ago when he got his important new job.....what
    was it now?
1592.5Nortz goes to WANG - ConfirmedGLDOA::MCMULLENFri Sep 13 1991 16:033
    Received a phone call from a contact at WANG and within the past hour
    it was on their "wire" that Rich Nortz as been named U.S. Field Service
    Director at Wang.  The Rich Nortz mentioned came from Digital. 
1592.6Wonder if this should tell us something about "Desktop Business" ...YUPPIE::COLEProposal:Getting an edge in word-wise!Fri Sep 13 1991 16:231
	... as he was just in the VP job a few months?
1592.7Egad!!!QBUS::M_PARISEMon Sep 16 1991 13:555
    re: .5
    Why trade a head-ache for an upset stomach???
    
    	Just a thought.
    
1592.8more on the wayMRKTNG::SILVERBERGMark Silverberg DTN 264-2269 TTB1-5/B3Mon Sep 16 1991 14:334
    Just heard thru the 'vine that 3-4 other VPs are no longer among us.
    
    Mark
    
1592.9Nortz out, Grainger I think is still inMR4DEC::DIAZOctavio, SME InternationalMon Sep 16 1991 15:339
I have seen a memo from D.  Zereski informing that Nortz left the company
to  go  to  work for an unnamed company.

As for Grainger,  I  saw  him  yesterday  at the Digital Seniors Classic,
which doesn't say anything  concrete,  but  I would guess that if he left
Digital, he wouldn't like to  run  into  a lot of DEC employees that know
him and explain what happened.

TD
1592.10Dow Jones NewswireSDSVAX::SWEENEYSOAPBOX: more thought, more talkFri Sep 20 1991 15:0338
Copyright � Dow Jones & Co. 1991
Source: Wall Street Journal
Headline: no headline
Time: SEP 19 1991 1732


Story:

  MAYNARD, Mass. -DJ- Digital Equipment Corp. said a vice president, David 
Grainger, who headed the company's efforts to sell computers through other 
manufacturers and software producers, left.

  He was the fourth Digital vice president in six weeks to announce plans to 
leave his job.

  Grainger, 48 years old, once headed Digital's worldwide sales and service 
operations, but he was transferred last year to the more limited role in what 
Digital calls "Corporate Channels."

  After that move, "the joke was that Dave Grainger was in grave danger," said 
Terry Shannon, president of Gander Resources, an Ashland, Mass., consulting 
firm that follows Digital.

  Grainger couldn't be reached for comment. A Digital spokeswoman said he 
didn't disclose any new job plans but said she assumed he had "numerous 
offers."  A successor wasn't named.

  Earlier this week, Richard A. Nortz, vice president, U.S. customer services, 
went to Wang Laboratories Inc.  Earlier this month James M. Osterhoff, chief 
financial officer, said he plans to leave the company. And in August, Robert 
Glorioso, who had held top jobs in Digital's effort to sell mainframe 
computers, took a leave of absence.

  "It wouldn't surprise me to see more changes at that level in the near 
term," Shannon said.  Digital is continuing a reorganization designed to boost 
sales and cut expenditures in the face of vast changes in the computer 
industry that have slashed profit margins and increased competitive pressure. 
Digital has never designated a successor to founder and president Kenneth H. 
Olsen, adding to speculation about its management hierarchy.