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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

2321.0. "Digital at a Glance -- says it all" by SMAUG::GARROD (From VMS -> NT; Unix a mere page from history) Mon Jan 11 1993 22:44

    
    I was looking at VTX LIVEWIRE and happened to take a look at option
    98 (Digital at a Glance). I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I
    read the mission and strategy statements.
    
    Read on,
    
    Dave

    
                   Digital at a Glance (updated 26-Oct-92)

  The following company outline may help answer questions from employees, the 
  media or customers, or could be used in presentations.  It will be updated 
  on a quarterly basis.  (Source:  Corp. P.R.)

NAME:				  Digital Equipment Corporation
HEADQUARTERS:			  Maynard, Massachusetts
PRESIDENT AND CEO:		  Robert B. Palmer
FOUNDER:			  Kenneth H. Olsen
FOUNDED:			  August, 1957
OPERATIONS:			  800+ Facilities in 97 Countries
WORLDWIDE OCCUPIED SPACE:         43.3 Million Square Feet
EMPLOYEES:			  108,500 Worldwide 
NYSE SYMBOL:			  DEC
FORTUNE 500 RANK:		  28TH

                            FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS


				  Q1 FY93	      FULL YEAR FY92*

NET OPERATING REVENUES		 $   3.31  billion    $ 13.93  billion
NET INCOME (LOSS) 		 $(260.5)  million    $ (2.79) billion 
PER SHARE (LOSS) (REPORTED) 	 $  (2.04)	      $(22.39)
R&D INVESTMENT			 $ 405.4   million    $  1.75  billion

*IN FY92 THE CORPORATION TOOK A $1.5 BILLION RESTRUCTURING CHARGE AND A 
$485 MILLION CHARGE FOR ACCOUNTING CHANGES.


                                 THE COMPANY

  Digital Equipment is the leading worldwide supplier of networked computer 
  systems, software, and services.  Digital pioneered and leads the industry 
  in interactive, distributed and multivendor computing.  An international 
  company, Digital does more than half its business outside the United States,
  developing and manufacturing products and providing customer services in the
  Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim.  Digital offers a full range of
  desktop, client/server, production, and mainframe systems for multivendor 
  computing environments.  Applications include transaction processing, data 
  management, telecommunications, finance, realtime data acquisition and 
  control, vector processing, education, publishing, manufacturing, software 
  development, and health care.


                               DIGITAL'S MISSION

  Digital's mission statement will be posted at a later date.

                               DIGITAL'S STRATEGY

  Digital's strategy statement will be posted at a later date.
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2321.1Going down?ODIXIE::SMITHJMon Jan 11 1993 23:501
    Who makes these decisions? Is my mother-in-law behind this?
2321.2Time flies when you're having funTLE::AMARTINAlan H. MartinTue Jan 12 1993 22:426
Re .0:

>OPERATIONS:			  800+ Facilities in 97 Countries

This week, there are no more than 559 sites with ENet nodes.
				/AHM
2321.3Just a thought.PTOECA::MCELWEEOpponent of OppressionWed Jan 13 1993 01:087
    RE: .2-
    
>This week, there are no more than 559 sites with ENet nodes.
    
    Hmmmm. Maybe we won't need hidden DECnet nodes much longer...
    
    Phil
2321.4SUBURB::THOMASHThe Devon DumplingWed Jan 13 1993 04:5514
    
>>This week, there are no more than 559 sites with ENet nodes.
>    
>    Hmmmm. Maybe we won't need hidden DECnet nodes much longer...
 
	So, whats a site?

        REO covers DECpark, Acre Road, Winnersh , this is three facilities, 
	have you counted it as one site, because of the one site code?

	(it could be 5 if shire hall anf heckfiled still have nodes registered)

	Heather	
  
2321.5Wassa mission?PLAYER::BROWNLFree the VT 52Wed Jan 13 1993 06:284
    Well I suppose there's some comfort in the fact that those figures are
    American rather than European billions.
    
    Laurie.
2321.6One way to "fix" itTOMK::KRUPINSKIA dark morning in AmericaWed Jan 13 1993 12:5719
	Well the fixed it.



	They simply deleted the following text from what had been there:


>                               DIGITAL'S MISSION
>
>  Digital's mission statement will be posted at a later date.
>
>                               DIGITAL'S STRATEGY
>
>  Digital's strategy statement will be posted at a later date.
>

			:-(

				Tom_K
2321.7Here's another waySTAR::DIPIRROWed Jan 13 1993 13:172
    	Or for DIGITAL'S STRATEGY, it could just say "See WANG's strategy
    statement."
2321.8CSOA1::LENNIGDave (N8JCX), MIG, CincinnatiWed Jan 13 1993 14:376
    Wow... Someone posts an observation in this conference on the 11th, and
    by the 13th the VTX database is updated...
    
    Personally, I thought the original was appropriate...
    
    	Dave
2321.9What's a facility?CX3PT2::CODE3::BANKSDavid Banks -- N�IONWed Jan 13 1993 16:3614
Re:           <<< Note 2321.2 by TLE::AMARTIN "Alan H. Martin" >>>


>>OPERATIONS:			  800+ Facilities in 97 Countries
>
>This week, there are no more than 559 sites with ENet nodes.

I don't think "sites" equate to "facilities".  For example, the CXO site
consists of a Customer Service Center, a Manufacturing facility, and an
Engineering facility, each of which is considered as a separate, independantly
managed entity even though a couple of them share a building.  There might even
be other (smaller?) entities depending how you break them out. 

-  David
2321.10Amazing how quickly some things can be doneSMAUG::GARRODFrom VMS -&gt; NT; Unix a mere page from historyWed Jan 13 1993 17:0010
    Amazingly quick response. Note that whoever updated the VTX infobase
    didn't update the header. It still says Updated: 26-Oct-92
    
    I must admit I'm a bit peeved by it being updated by removing the
    headers rather than inserting mission and strategy statement.
    
    Dave
    
    PS Whoever updated it didn't even thank me for pointing out this
       strange data.
2321.11Lucky it's got that nameTLE::AMARTINAlan H. MartinWed Jan 13 1993 18:479
Re .4:

>        So, whats a site?
>
>        REO covers DECpark, Acre Road, Winnersh , this is three facilities,
>        have you counted it as one site, because of the one site code?

I figure each site has a site code.
				/AHM
2321.12STIMPY::QUODLINGWed Jan 13 1993 18:555
    I can think of half a dozen sites, that have no network connected 
    dialups on line, but do have terminals muxed to another facility...
    
    q
    
2321.13VTX knows when it was updatedCSOADM::ROTHYou like it, it likes you!Thu Jan 14 1993 08:3110
>...Note that whoever updated the VTX infobase didn't update the header. It
>still says Updated: 26-Oct-92

VTX to the rescue.

On any VTX page you can enter <PF1><KP4> ("GOLD, KEYPAD 4") and it will
show the date the page was last created. For the page in question, it now
says "13-JAN-1993".

Lee
2321.14PLAYER::BROWNLFree Freezer? Nein!Thu Jan 14 1993 10:137
RE:       <<< Note 2321.8 by CSOA1::LENNIG "Dave (N8JCX), MIG, Cincinnati" >>>

�    by the 13th the VTX database is updated...
    
    Oh, I understand that VTX is updated every January 13th...
    
    Laurie.