Conference csc32::consolemanager

Veli,
     thanks to to you and all the other people for the kind words. Over the 
last four years Phil Dave and I have watched our baby grow and now leave home.
Itis a time of mixed emotions for all of us.

We have always strived to give the best support we can to the field etc (we 
have worked on the other side of the fence as well) and hope that you 
have had patience with us when things have not gone as well as hoped.

We have enjoyed both the engineering work and the contact with customers and 
the field personnel in DEC. 

Keep up the good work.
Cheers Simon...

    Phil, Simon,
    
    I'm joining Veli and others to thank you too for all this years
    of dedicated work and cooperation. 
    During all the time spent on the OSCint project, I always got
    very good support from you guys.
    
    Good luck for the future.
    
    Cheers,
    Christian.
    

    Phil, Simon:
    
    I, too, would like to thank you for your efforts in making PCM such a
    fine product. Besides the technical aspects, you understood that some
    of us use PCM to deliver services to real, live Customers, and your
    answers have always been timely, complete and thorough!
    
    Best of luck for the future!
    							....... Vern.

    Phil and Simon:
    
    Thank you both very, very much for all the hard work and support
    you've put into this project during the past year that I've been
    on this team.  Of the products that I've managed, and those I've
    seen managed, yours is among the best engineering teams I've ever
    been fortunate enough to work with (this including Dave B, Phil G,
    and Dan B).  Your support of the product and for me and the rest
    of the team here have been nothing less than 100+%, I know I can
    always count on you, and our customers and field people have 
    always gotten more and better support than they'd expected (this
    is secondhand relayed to me, and I believe it).  You've made
    my job easier than it otherwise could have been, and I count myself
    lucky to have had the privilege of working with you as the engineering
    team.
    
    Here on the product management front, we are still carrying on
    our "work" to make sure the decisions made are based on all the 
    available facts we can find and provide.  This aside, I hope our
    paths cross again, and I know that with your professionalism and
    dedication, whomever you work with or for would find that they've
    got themselves quite the team or persons.
        
    Regards,
    Rae Collier  

    Well, Simon & Phil,
    
    You look as though you are finally going. So here are my best wishes to
    you both from the other side of the world, maybe I'll run into you guys
    again sometime.
    
    When I worked with you both in the UK, over the last 5 years, sure we
    had our disagreements, but you were both highly valuable members of a
    group that I consider (biasedness aside) to be one of the best that
    ever came out of Digital. We were a forward thinking proactive group
    that came up with many ideas that the company is only now thinking
    about. You guys were the ones that made much of it possible with your
    engineering skills and your own ideas.
    
    Unfortunately, in the Digital of today, being right is not enough. You
    have engineered a superb product and returned revenue well above
    target, but still are not required. What ever hapenned to the 'people'
    company of old?
    
    Good luck guys, I wish you well on your new "mission to discover
    strange new worlds".
    
    Shaun
    

    To add my voice to the growing chorus, let me express my appreciation
    for the good work you have done.  You took a fine product and made it
    significantly better.  In all that you have done, you "did the right
    thing," reflecting the best meaning of that phrase in Digital's
    history.
    
    When your paths seemed to diverge from the officially approved
    management orthodoxy, it generally was because you were way ahead of
    the rest of us.  Eventually, we caught up with you, most of the time.
    
    This is sounding like a funeral oration, and it's not meant to be.  I
    hope that we will have opportunities to work together in the future,
    and best of luck!
    
    Larry

    Goodbye guys! Thanks for the kind departing words in note 3. It's been
    a real pleasure working with you over the past couple years. You will be
    missed! And don't worry about all those beers... I'll collect them
    someday. ;-}
    
    Oh, and Simon...
    
    VMS Rules!!! ;-}
    
    The best of luck to you both!
    
    Dan