| Title: | The Digital way of working |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL ON |
| 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 |
Here is an interesting snippet from the Robert X. Cringely column in
InfoWorld. It is also poster at the InfoWorld Web site.
For the uninitiated, this column is the typical rumor mill thing many high
tech news rags have these days. (these paragraphs posted without expressed
written consent of the National Football League, etc. etc).
Is there a response? Should there be a response?
A race for the door
The loose lips on these fellows made me forget
my agonizing rash for a while -- sort of the way
$2.5 million will make Enrico Pesatori forget the
pain of being summarily booted from Digital. The
No. 2 man got a severance package that you can
bet won't be seen by the legions who will be laid
off in the next few months.
Of course, morale is so low at Digital these days
that folks are quitting before the company has a
chance to fire them. All but two software
engineers working on the Mailbus 400 and X500
projects have left. The contractors doing the QA
on TeamLinks, Version 2.7, packed it in last
week.
TeamLinks has enough new features that the
marketing folks wanted to call it Version 3.0, but
it looks as if that designation will be saved for the
version scheduled to be released 12 months
hence. The spec sheet calls for POP3 and MIME
capability to be added then. In the meantime, to
take full advantage of the features in Version 2.7,
customers will have to upgrade to Version 3.2 of
All-In-1.
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| 4731.1 | ACISS2::LENNIG | Dave (N8JCX), MIG, @CYO | Thu Jul 18 1996 13:47 | 9 | |
Well, there is one inaccuracy I can spot;
>> All but two software
>> engineers working on the Mailbus 400 and X500
>> projects have left.
The X500 team is alive and well.
Dave
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| 4731.2 | SMTP/POP3/MIME support will be in TeamLinks V2.7 | TAMARA::qwert.zko.dec.com::mcclung | John McClung, 381-2774 | Fri Jul 19 1996 10:51 | 11 |
> TeamLinks has enough new features that the > marketing folks wanted to call it Version 3.0, but > it looks as if that designation will be saved for the > version scheduled to be released 12 months >>> hence. The spec sheet calls for POP3 and MIME >>> capability to be added then. TeamLinks V2.7 (currently in final field test) will contain SMTP/POP3/MIME support. John | |||||
| 4731.3 | Send a letter to InfoWorld | STAR::HUVAL | Bonnie D. Huval | Fri Jul 19 1996 11:50 | 5 |
Sounds like you guys ought to send a letter to the magazine demanding that they publish a correction. Specify what the real situation is & insist that they print it. B. D. Huval | |||||
| 4731.4 | re: .3 | ACISS2::LENNIG | Dave (N8JCX), MIG, @CYO | Fri Jul 19 1996 11:53 | 1 |
But that would also mean acknowledging the parts they got right. | |||||
| 4731.5 | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Fri Jul 19 1996 12:25 | 6 | |
It would also mean fighting the Corporate PR department which prefers not to make waves. VMS submitted a letter to go to Datamation refuting misstatements about VMS' Year 2000 readiness, but the PR department said "no". Meanwhile we got a lot of angry and upset customers. Steve | |||||
| 4731.6 | Get the customers to write. | EVMS::PIRULO::LEDERMAN | B. Z. Lederman | Mon Jul 22 1996 09:11 | 10 |
If you have good relations with some customers (or one of the
Ambassadors), it might be better to have the customers or someone from
DECUS write the letter. Having someone from outside the company write
them might look better.
By the way, I've written more than one letter to Datamation before I
came to work for Digital, and I believe at least one got published.
They are still basically pro-IBM mainframe and anti-everything-else,
especially Digital, so working with them is always an uphill battle.
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