| Title: | The Digital way of working |
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Note 2457.0 See you next week -- Have a good trip in... 10 replies
DPDMAI::WISNIEWSKI "ADEPT of the Virtual Space." 126 lines 21-SEP-1994 14:16
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"They fight and fight and fight and fight and fight -- The Itchy and
Scratchy shooow..."
(Intro Jingle to the Ichy and Scratchy show
from "The Simpsons")
--
The OpenVMS partner sat at the dining room table helping his daughter
make a Diorama for her book report on The Sneezes while his youngest
watched a rerun of the Simpsons. Dr Suess was alway a personal favorite
and fertile ground for passwords and security countersigns and now he was
sharing that world with DECUS's latest card carrier his daughter
(member # 32899).
Too soon the school project was finished and it was time for bed for
his two little apprentices. The younger one climbed up to the top of
her bunk bed festooned in LionKing sheets and pillowcases surrounded
by stuffed and soft reflections of animal reality.
As he tucked her in she smiled sweetly and innocently and asked
"Daddy, some mad people on the Internet said that Digital doesn't
care about software anymore. Is that true?"
"Well Honey" the OpenVMS partner began "Digital is a big company
with many overlapping business units, some units feel the need to
denegrate another business unit to try to improve the way they perform.
That sometimes gives the impression that DEC isn't a software company
anymore."
"You mean like the way people acted in Unix/VMS war that you fought in"
asked the child wide eyed.
"That was the Open Systems Wars honey. But yes Digital started to abandon
technology that it invented to exclusively adopt technology it had
little or no control over... We should have used both technologies for
market penetration, leveraging our installed base to introduce our
Standards Story." the OpenVMS Partner sighed "Digital is still learning
about proper positioning and marketing of all our flagship products
and core competencies. Now Digital has even sold DEC developed database
RdB and replaced it with Oracle. Sometime our business people just have
a little trouble thinking clearly"
"Maybe they need some Paxil or Prosac?" the little one asked
"No anti-depressants aren't the answer, I think they need a good swift
kick in the ..." The OpenVMS partner stopped realizing he was talking
to his young daughter and finished "pants"
"Well daddy the stock's at $28" beamed the girl
"That's will be good to dream about, the market says DEC is due for a
turn around." the OpenVMS partner Hugged the little girl and kissed
her on the forehead and tickling her asked "Quick tell me about
OpenVMS and Fault Tolerance..."
Giggling uncontrollabley she laughed "Oh Daddy you know that Digital
sold Fault Tolerance systems off last week...."
Giving her one more hug the OpenVMS partner asked "Will you miss me
next week?"
"Yes, you tell those silly OpenVMS partner people that you want
DCL and POSIX integrated and a TCP/IP product that's better than
TGV's and I want the WIN32 socket interface for OpenVMS Xwindows
so I can play Wingcommander and use WNT Netview/Hermes on an OpenVMS
workstation next year, and they better give "DOLLAR" a better name
than Spiral..."
"Ok sweetheart, I'll tell them and I better not catch you reading
the partner's private file again little lady! Good night..."
"And Daddy?" asked the little girl from under the covers.
"Yes sweetheart?" answer the OpenVMS partner.
"Make sure you tell them what a good job they did on the Comeback
Ad, it even was in Time magazine this week, I even showed my
teacher! Nitey-Nite!"
I'll be sure to tell them honey.. Sleep good...
The OpenVMS partner closed the door to his youngest's bedroom and
turned, his 9 year old daughter stood smiling in the hall.
"And what are you grinning about?" he asked
"Can I make a Power Rangers WEBpage when you get back from the
OpenVMS partners meeting?" she asked.
"What do I look like?" the OpenVMS partner asked "Lord Zed?"
"Well Ray's dad let him put up a WEBpage for Tiny Toons on his
386 LINUX system" said the girl
Sensing the need for a lesson the OpenVMS Partner took his daughter
into the living room and booted the Game Machine (486 multi-media
etherneted to the household LAN) and opened Pathworks Mosaic through
the family firewall to the Internet.
Pulling up the hotlist he clicked on Ray's Dad's PC "FREEnet" machine.
"See honey" Ray is only NNTP serving the newsgroup alt.tinytoons to
your Mosaic reader he doesn't have a real WEBserver up. Your Mosaic
reader makes USEnet news and FTP sites only look like webpages. See
the difference?"
"But I told Ray I was going to make a webpage for the Power Rangers."
cried the little girl
"Ok honey I'll help you make one after I get back from the Partners
Meeting."
Picking up his young daughter and taking her to bed the OpenVMS
Partner tucked in his oldest girl and asked "What do you want to
be when you grow up honey?"
"I want to be a Power Ranger." she excitedly said "Or an OpenVMS
Partner just like you."
The OpenVMS partner kissed his daughter and smiled, the Dale
Carnigie sales training for the kids was paying off. You can
never start too young...
Call the troops, sound the alarms, hide all the hardware in Nashua...
The OpenVMS Partners are converging on the Clarion...
See you all next week -- Good trip in...
John Wisniewski
--
OpenVMS Partners Background
The Digital OpenVMS Partners are a group of Senior Technical Consultants
from the field who support and drive OpenVMS and Production Systems
business (OpenVMS usually, but not exclusively) in their geography.
Founded in 1987, the OpenVMS Partners return twice each year (Spring
and Fall) to Nashua NH at the Clarion Hotel (near ZKO) to receive
engineerings Plans, PIDs, goals and agendas so that appropriate
information can be shared with Customers in the OpenVMS Partner's
geographies via the PID process.
In exchange the Engineering community gets a direct input from
the field on the needs, desires, problems, and comments of
customers and the OpenVMS Partners regarding their specific
products.
There are currently over 120 OpenVMS Partners World-Wide who's
charter is to stand-up for and defend (both inside and outside
the company) the good name of Digital and all of our production
quality Operating Systems (in order of robust capablities) OpenVMS,
OSF/1, and WNT.
In these troubled times within Digital I'm still proud to publicly
say that I'm an OpenVMS Partner with a technical focus on the
Industry's most Stable Production Quality Operating System, OpenVMS.
10,000,000 OpenVMS Users can't be all wrong;-)
John Wisniewski 9/23/94
OpenVMS Partner North Texas/Oklahoma
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| 3408.1 | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Fri Sep 23 1994 14:02 | 3 | |
I'll be at the Clarion on Tuesday, at the "Compilers BOF". Should be fun. Steve | |||||
| 3408.2 | If it's Tuesday, It must be Nashua... | MSBCS::STEINHARDT | Fri Sep 23 1994 15:20 | 11 | |
OK, I'm offering a genuine "(Open)VMS Forever" bumpersticker to whoever
states the best example of a recent OpenVMS new customer win while
I'm presenting the new version of the OpenVMS customer presentation
(high level) on Tuesday. Second place gets an "I (heart) My VAX"
bumpersticker.
Cheers,
Ken
(OpenVMS Marketing)
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| 3408.3 | Have a great meeting guys | POBOX::CORSON | Higher, and a bit more to the right | Fri Sep 23 1994 18:19 | 6 |
Ken - I already got them both - and it is still the BEST Operating
System ever developed for a computer. And you can tell 'em all I said
so.
the Greyhawk
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| 3408.4 | Don't need no stinkin' bumper sticker... | STAR::DIPIRRO | Fri Sep 23 1994 19:10 | 3 | |
I want one of those "My Specmark is Bigger Than Your Specmark"
T-shirts. If you were giving away those, I might even go out and sell
something myself.
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| 3408.5 | HAAG::HAAG | Rode hard. Put up wet. | Sun Sep 25 1994 14:58 | 1 | |
how many OpenVMS field based partners are left? | |||||
| 3408.6 | OKFINE::KENAH | Do we have any peanut butter? | Mon Sep 26 1994 16:44 | 6 | |
>how many OpenVMS field based partners are left?
There are still about 110 Partners in all, worldwide. Most of
them (around 95) are field-based.
andrew
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| 3408.7 | HAAG::HAAG | Rode hard. Put up wet. | Mon Sep 26 1994 19:50 | 4 | |
re -1
thanks andrew. i am surprised there are that many left. pleasantly
surprised.
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| 3408.8 | I want it... I want it | DPDMAI::ROSE | Mon Sep 26 1994 22:09 | 6 | |
John...
Tell them we are still seeing a want in the field for the Emerald (VMS
on Intel) or at minimum a status on the Tadpole system.
..Larry
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| 3408.9 | OKFINE::KENAH | Do we have any peanut butter? | Tue Sep 27 1994 12:47 | 3 | |
Contact John Wisniewski when he returns to the office...
andrew
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| 3408.10 | .8 why not ... | KETJE::DIERICK | Have a quasar for breakfast ! | Mon Oct 03 1994 12:21 | 15 |
> John...
> Tell them we are still seeing a want in the field for the Emerald (VMS
> on Intel) or at minimum a status on the Tadpole system.
> ..Larry
yeah, and we want OSF/1 on Pentium ;^)
The only problem is, who's gonna pay for all this.
Dominique
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| 3408.11 | Why not ? We already have made some many mistakes ... | KETJE::SYBERTZ | Marc Sybertz@BRO - DTN 856-7572 | Mon Oct 03 1994 12:44 | 20 |
>> I want it... I want it
>> Tell them we are still seeing a want in the field for the Emerald (VMS
>> on Intel) or at minimum a status on the Tadpole system.
> yeah, and we want OSF/1 on Pentium ;^)
> The only problem is, who's gonna pay for all this.
The problem is not to find who will pay for it ...
The problem is to find people interested in it ... and enough of these people to
make it profitable ...
If you think that porting VMS (Sorry, Open VMS) on Intel will give us new market
shares and so helping us to come back to profitability, then just do it ... but
this time, you will have to take your responsability (you know, the 'no excuse
management' ...), just in case it doesn't succeed !
Marc.
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