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2286.1 | | STIMPY::QUODLING | | Mon Dec 21 1992 06:05 | 10 |
| There is something wrong, when VP's, who should be providing strategic
direction, have to spend all of their time signing documentation
requests.
Gee, if we trusted our employees, and truly empowered them, we could
get rid of masses of bureaucracy, and middle management.
Peter Q.
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2286.2 | | XLIB::SCHAFER | Mark Schafer, ISV Tech. Support | Mon Dec 21 1992 17:05 | 2 |
| they don't spend their time signing anything because they DON'T okay
the requests, that's how they control the costs! :-)
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2286.3 | Don't worry, we're well covered! | INFACT::BEVIS | Dig it, AL! | Tue Dec 22 1992 02:32 | 5 |
| Don't worry, there are **LOTS** of VPs to go around.
Don
(as Radar O'Riley once said, "And sign this. It's a form saying you
signed that other form.")
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2286.4 | | ADSERV::PW::WINALSKI | Careful with that AXP, Eugene | Sun Dec 27 1992 00:53 | 7 |
| RE: .0
So get your request in to your VP. If you can make a legitimate business case
to your VP, you'll get the sign-off and the software. If you can't, then you
won't (and shouldn't) get it.
--PSW
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2286.5 | Not my money... | HERCUL::MOSER | Would you like a little CM with that? | Mon Dec 28 1992 01:12 | 24 |
| re: <<< Note 2286.4 by ADSERV::PW::WINALSKI "Careful with that AXP, Eugene" >>>
Damn... With attitudes like that it's no wonder our overhead rates are so
high...
Let's see...
Spec IV bills internally at about $70/hr
Let's say he spends a full day trying to figure out how to get a VP signature,
and that's probably on the light end of what it would take, so he's got $560
bucks in time in this enterprise and we haven't even started to figure on all
of the secretaries and managers that will inevitably be in the middle of
this...
Not to mention while folks are engaged in this silliness they are not selling
or delivering... So add in the opportunity costs to boot...
Our little $50 package is probably now at about $1500 easy...
This is brain dead...
IMHO
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2286.6 | Ultrix? | 42702::WELSH | Think it through | Mon Jan 04 1993 11:14 | 11 |
| That's an interesting policy.
Isn't Ultrix a royalty product? (And OSF/1 too?) My understanding
was that anything that claims to be Unix has to pay royalties to
Unix System Labs.
There are many other significant products that pay external royalties,
too - in my space of software development, for instance, DECdesign
Ptech and Ptech Code Generator, and DECadmire.
/Tom
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2286.7 | | XLIB::SCHAFER | Mark Schafer, ISV Tech. Support | Mon Jan 04 1993 16:43 | 1 |
| yeah, but how many people pick up Ultrix for their PC at home? :-)
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2286.8 | | TLE::TOKLAS::FELDMAN | Opportunities are our Future | Mon Jan 04 1993 20:43 | 7 |
| re: .6
Only products that use code derived from AT&T or Berkeley sources have
to pay royalties. I believe there are Unix-clones on the market that
are AT&T-clean.
Gary
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