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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

3102.0. "The ultimate in insults - Business Week Special Issue" by TPSYS::ZAHAVI () Tue May 24 1994 10:32

Page 26 of the Business Week special issue on the Information Revolution
lists the Casualties of the Information Economy within the past two years.
The list is headed by IBM with 35000 planned cuts and ends with Compaq in 
11th place with 1000 planned cuts.

Nowhere is DEC mentioned in the list with our own thousands of planned cuts.

Now some people may think this is a good thing, but I think that this is another
indication of the non-visibility to which we've been reduced.

It is time that we realize that we are not on the top of the heap but rather
in a very deep hole.  We have to learn new ways to crawl and walk.  Getting
attention and visibility is mandatory. 

We need to admit to ourselves that almost everyone has good technology, not just
us.  Other companies however, seem to do a better job in making everyone aware
of theirs.

- Bill

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3102.1		CTHQ::DELUCO	Premature Grandparent	`Tue May 24 1994 11:46`	3
	It may also be an indication that Business Week is out of touch. Jim
3102.2	Say anything you want ... but spell the name right	TPSYS::ZAHAVI		`Tue May 24 1994 12:22`	2
	It's highly presumptuous of us to assume that everyone out there should know all about us while we do as little as possible to become known.
3102.3	true experence...	AKOCOA::OUELLETTE		`Tue May 24 1994 13:00`	12
	Sure they do... I went to a wedding this weekend and met a few people who have heard of us...... We are that clock company with too many employees.... ;-)
3102.4	It is a pattern!	GLDOA::RAO	R. V. Rao	`Tue May 24 1994 13:10`	11
	Another example of invisible Digital. This week's InformationWeek has anarticle about the Video-on-Demand trials underway in US including the US West and Nynex in Manhattan which are being done with Alpha servers. They talk about all the vendors involved in the NYNEX trial except Digital! Talk about visibility! Looks like no one but us employees receive (or read) our press releases. RV
3102.5	The BW issue was positive.	RECV::TAMER		`Tue May 24 1994 13:29`	20
	re previous However, note that Digital is mentioned positively in three separate articles in the same Business Week special issue. 1. Mentions Alpha as having the highest clock rate and that it will be at 400-500 Mhz by the end of the century. (Although it says inaccurately that highest ALpha clock rate todate is 190 Mhz !) 2. Another article mentions talks between Digital and Veba about supplying Video-on-demand services to Veba's network of 300,000 German homes. 3. A DECpc Portable having the longest battery life among all tested portables. All in all not that bad publicity compared to all the other bashing that we're accustomed to. Phil
3102.6	video on demand	WMOIS::BLANCHARD		`Tue May 24 1994 13:43`	13
	As I understood information about digital and NYNEX's video on demand project, digital would be strictly behind the scenes. digital will be an industrial supplier. Like many companies in industry, some are only known to manufacturers. Pick up an indutrial supply magazine and look at the ads to get some idea of how many companies are supplying industry, yet the "average consumer" never hears of them. Good thing that article didn't mention digital as a supplier to NYNEX, else the demand for video on demand would go through the roof. :*) steve
3102.7	Forgotten by Barron's	KELVIN::PACHECO	RON	`Tue May 24 1994 16:15`	8
	I just read Barron's last night, which had a great interview with two portifolio managers who specialize in the ``hi tech'' industry. These guys appeared to have great insight into technology, who's doing what & with whom, etc. Topics included servers, OS's, networking, wireless, �p's, etc. The only time we were mentioned in this article was when one of the guys predicted we'd sell a fab to AMD who is in need of capacity. (Ugh!) It appeared to me that they purposely left Digital out of thwe discussion. After all, they were talking about good and bad stock bets.
3102.8	a plausible explanation to barron's slip	STAR::ABBASI	chess is cool !	`Tue May 24 1994 16:49`	12
	> After all, they were talking about good and bad stock bets. well, may be becuase our stock is neither bad nor good ? can't a stock be like that? i think they call this in the trade as "on hold" . that must be it, we are "on hold". so DONT PANIC ! \bye \nasser
3102.9		PLAYER::BROWNL	A-mazed on the info Highway!	`Wed May 25 1994 05:17`	6
	RE: .0 I know. Let's change the logo, and spend millions of dollars on a "branding" campaign. That'll do it. No problem. Fersure. Yessir. Laurie.
3102.10		ICS::BEAN	Attila the Hun was a LIBERAL!	`Wed May 25 1994 09:22`	7
	EXCELLENT IDEA, Laurie... I know! Let's change those ugly round dots over the "i"'s in Digital into neat little SQUARE ones! I'm sure everyone will notice and then Digital will be on its rightful way back up! tony
3102.11		PLAYER::BROWNL	A-mazed on the info Highway!	`Wed May 25 1994 11:04`	3
	Yes! I like it! Do we have a DEC Standard for that yet? Laurie.
3102.12	yes	CALDEC::DMILLER		`Wed May 25 1994 12:00`	1
	131313.1
3102.13		PLAYER::BROWNL	A-mazed on the info Highway!	`Wed May 25 1994 12:04`	1
	Phew!
3102.14	Oh No, Not Again	HLDE01::VUURBOOM_R	Roelof Vuurboom @ APD, DTN 829 4066	`Wed May 25 1994 15:45`	7
	> Phew! Don't breathe a sigh of relief yet, I read in 3102.14 that 131313.1 is still draft only! Hang onto your hats folks this could turn out to be another of those long hot summer threads...
3102.15	Along the same lines . . .	ZENDIA::FLEMMING		`Thu Jun 09 1994 08:10`	10
	Although this goes back a while, how cum.. We can't get the fact that we are number one in the delivery of servers for video on demand trails into a series of five articles on the information super highway in the WSJ but a confidentail memo on our cash flow makes the front page of the WSJ saying "Digital Equipment's treasurer warned last month in a memo to senior executives that the big computer maker was using up cash to quickly." Methinks the former requires PR on our part and the latter requires good reporting on the part of the WSJ staff. I believe the WSJ, et. al., will publish good news about us if we tell them about it.
3102.16		MSE1::PCOTE	Herculean efforts in progress	`Fri Jun 10 1994 13:39`	4
	rep .-1 the latter is juicy reading. (even for the WSJ) It's easy to kick someone when they're down. sigh ...
3102.17	Let's start leaking good information :-)	TLE::PERIQUET	Dennis Periquet	`Tue Jun 14 1994 14:50`	8
	We should try putting a memo together detailing all that Digital wants to the public to know. Then put "Digital Confidential" on it and then "accidentally" drop it in the lobby of famous newspapers around the world. Dennis
3102.18		QUARK::LIONEL	Free advice is worth every cent	`Tue Jun 14 1994 15:36`	6
	Re: .17 It's even easier than that - just post it here. It'll show up in the newspaper the next day. Steve