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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:	The Digital way of working

Moderator:	QUARK::LIONELON

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

2768.0. "Great news for Digital" by POCUS::HUSTON () Tue Nov 09 1993 18:08

    From 11/9 Wall Street Journal, extract w/o perm.                                        
    
         IBM is planning today to name William R. Johnson Jr., general manager
         of Networking Hardware, a new division, according to people familiar
         with the plan.
    
         Mr. Johnson, a former Digital Equipment Corp. vice president,
         corporate marketing, will report to Ellen Hancock...
    
         Analysts estimate the total business, one of the fastest-growing
         sectors at IBM, generates about $5 billion of revenue annually.
    
    
    
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    That should be about $3 billion by next year.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2768.1	pointer to other BJ discussion	CVG::THOMPSON	Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?	`Tue Nov 09 1993 18:18`	4
	See 2602 in this conference for comments that were made when he left Digital. Alfred
2768.2		THEBAY::CHABANED	Spasticus Dyslexicus	`Tue Nov 09 1993 18:39`	5
	Too bad HP diddn't get him.
2768.3	What are you trying to say Dave?	POCUS::BOESCHEN		`Tue Nov 09 1993 20:30`	1

2768.4	Sure ?	VNASWS::ERIK	Erik A.Rosdol, ACT-IT Vienna, Austria	`Wed Nov 10 1993 11:20`	12
	While there seems to be concensus about BJ's talent as VP of Marketing in 2602.*, there seems also to be concensus that he was a real asset in HW and SW engineering. Based on 0.'s information on BJ's new position at IBM I would be very careful in calling this ' Great news for DIGITAL'. Better we get our network products going out the door quickly, before we see first results from them.... Erik
2768.5		OKFINE::KENAH		`Wed Nov 10 1993 12:21`	3
	BJ's back in Engineering -- he'll probably do great. andrew
2768.6		BROKE::SHAH	Amitabh "Leadership DECAF? Yuck!"	`Wed Nov 10 1993 14:19`	4
	Re. .0 What is this? IBM and Digital trading VP's? In that case they can use a some more of ours now + a few draft picks for the next year :-).
2768.7	NaC took a nosedive in the late '80s	CARAFE::GOLDSTEIN	Global Village Idiot	`Wed Nov 10 1993 20:19`	10
	re:.7 Nothing personal... I rather liked BJ as a person. But I also worked in engineering when he ran things. Good news for Digital. (Can you spell "Hastings"? "Phase V"? "OSI Backbone"? "TCP/IP support"? "WANrouter 500"? "StrataCom"? All point to failures on his watch. None his own personal line management, but all by his selected managers whom he didn't discipline.)