| 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 |
this recently went out over USENET... questions: how long after the
VAR's are told are all other customers told? doesn't allowing rumor's
like this to spread, i.e. with no official press release, leave us open
to bad publicity/reputation (e.g. incorrect rumors/assumptions)?
just wondering,
Jonathan
[if this doesn't belong in this conference - just let me know.]
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From: "dave_stokes.SD"@XEROX.COM
Subject: Re: VAXstation 2000 going away
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
DEC is passing the word to various VARs that the MicroVAX II, VAXsation
2000, and the low end MicroVax III's (3200, etc.) are going to going
'bye bye' by the end of the summer. DEC will still support these
systems but they will join DECSystems-10s and DECsystem-20s, PDP-6s,
PDP-8s, VAX-11/725, 730s, and 782s in the Ol' Hardware category.
Dave Stokes
Xerox Electronic Publishing
San Diego
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| 829.1 | I vote no! | DNEAST::STARIE_DICK | I'd rather be skiing | Mon Jun 05 1989 12:08 | 17 |
I don't think it belongs in this conference or in any public conference
I have seen both product announcements and retirements that were
apparently leaked to customers, and in both cases a negative impact
on sales was the apparent result.
I personaly heard a DEC salesman tell a customer "wait for the Microvax
II that is going to come out next qtr" This well meaning tidbit
helped kill microvax I prematurely. (this was reported thru channels
at the time)
Discussions like this have little gain and great risk.
(One guys opinion)
dick
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| 829.2 | CVG::THOMPSON | Protect the guilty, punish the innocent | Mon Jun 05 1989 13:12 | 7 | |
Answering the question "are MV IIs going away" is not appropriate for this conference but I don't think that that is being asked my the author of .0. How we handle rumors like this may be but this spicific one might be better handled in the marketing conference at ASIMOV::MARKETING (KP7 etc). Alfred | |||||
| 829.3 | When is a rumor not a rumor? When it's announced! | HOCUS::KOZAKIEWICZ | Shoes for industry | Mon Jun 05 1989 13:16 | 10 |
I don't know about the uVAX II or the 3200, but the VS2000 phase-down
was announced in the April 17 Sales Update, which means customers
should know.
o Last order date June 30, 1989
o Part numbers moved to maintenance-only July 5, 1989
Al
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| 829.5 | what i meant... | SLDA5::DUNAISKY | Freedom isn't free. | Tue Jun 06 1989 03:05 | 36 |
let me quickly clarify my question:
re: .1
.0 was taken from a public (i.e. *not* Digital internal) bulletin board
- it has already been seen by many, many customers, competitors, etc.
(whether or not that still makes it o.k. to put the "rumor" here is up for
discussion - but not here - and left to the moderators judgement).
re: .2
a related question (but not the original [see below]): how do we handle
rumors like these?
re: .3
ahah... the 2000 phasedown was internally published (and the knowledge
is available to customer's that ask, i guess?)...
re: .4
that's the truth as you and i know it, but my question really was meant
to ask: don't the customer's just hear "MicroVAX 2000's are obselete!"
- and probably from uncomplementary sources - if all we do is announce
it to a limited group of people first? and on top of that negative
publicity, the message could get slightly changed (ever hear of the
telephone game?) if it wasn't clearly released, and even more negative
publicity could result... am i just being a pessimist? fill me in on
what really happens!...
moderator - write lock this if you agree it should go in the MARKETING
notesfile.
thanks for the replies,
Jonathan
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