Conference 7.286::digital

Digital's latest policy toward Iran will be determined by applicable law.

(I.E., DEC will sell to anyone, anywhere, as long as no laws are violated.)

    Usually DEC or any other company towards a foreign government depends
    on the US governments attitude. Since I have not heard that the US
    government has decided to allow all types of exports to Iran I assume
    that nothing has changed in terms of companies that may want to do
    business with Iran.
    
    

    look at note 1694 and think Iran tomorrow in the world trade system.
    

    What about Salman Rushdie? (spelling?)

    I say we sell to him also... If anyone can find him!
    
    --- Gavin

    I don't believe Digital will sell to anyone if there are no laws
    to say otherwise.  If my memory serves me correctly, US corporations
    are now 'allowed' to sell into South Africa yet a while ago Digital
    put out a statement (seen in Live Wire) that the corporation would
    still not sell there.
    
    Calvin

    Re .6

    Strange I seem to remember Digital getting a rather hefty fine from
    the US government when a shipment of vaxen were intercepted on their
    way to Russia. As far as I can remember they had originally been
    shipped to South Africa.

    Jamie.

    Hmmm.  I seem to recall they were originally shipped to West Germany.
    Well, I suppose somebody will know for sure and post the information.

    
    
      Personally, I say we sell to them (Iran) with the stipulation they 
    must also purchase a 7 by 24 DECservice contract, then make sure the
    equipment that gets shipped has lots of problems. Just my way of
    trying to get those margins up. In fact this might not be a bad idea
    for Iraq either!
    
    
                                             Phil...

    Re .9
    
    Methinks you meant percall, not Decservice; unless you want our margin
    pulled down.

      
    
    I stand corrected. As long as we make lots and lots of money/profit!
    
    

    Per call? 

    We would make a killing just on the travel time.

    Jamie.

    We didn't do business in South Africa even before the recent embargo.
    Not politically correct don't you know.....also, we couldn't get
    permission from the Cambridge City Council.  Big mistake in my opinion,
    but I bet that doesn't surprise anyone.

    Did Digital try to get permission from Cambridge?  (That's what I infer
    from .-1.)  The idea of that strains my credulity.

We wouldn't have needed permission to sell to the RSA from the Cambridge City
Council.

I'm sure if we had seen more business in the RSA than with the Cambridge
City Government we would have chosen the higher profit route and let the
Cambridge folk be damned -- were that the only consideration.

Prior to the embargo, we sold systems in South Africa.  I know people who
serviced them.  During the embargo, those systems were still there, and
somehow they were legally serviced by third parties who found a way to legally
bring in parts.

And I'm informed by a friend who was on overseas State Department duty in
Pretoria that there were other third parties who legally reexported our new
equipment to South Africa.

The South Africa embargo wasn't as tight as the ITAR (International Trafficking
In Arms) regulations that prevent the sale of weapons-quality VMS systems to
enemies.  South Africa was a pariah, not an enemy.  A big difference -- mostly
that third party transactions weren't forbidden.

/john

Ahhh Gi'day...�

    Yeah, but  didn't  they  get on the Nuclear Proliferation List from the
    State Deptartment, which was more strict that the embargo?

What's a weapons-quality VMS system?  BTW, I'm writing this using a
doorstop-quality VMS system.

Re .17:

>What's a weapons-quality VMS system?  BTW, I'm writing this using a
>doorstop-quality VMS system.

A doorstop-quality VMS system dropped from a sufficient height.
				/AHM