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5183.1 | sneakin' thru the alley with sally | ALFSS1::AJACKSON | | Wed Mar 12 1997 05:06 | 3 |
| Actually, I was surfing for Jay Leno, with musical guest Robert
Palmer...
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5183.2 | Simply Irresistable- She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went... | SUBSYS::BAILLIE | Come on, who threw that stone? | Wed Mar 12 1997 11:58 | 6 |
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If possible could someone enter the text of the interview or give a pointer to it.
thanx
jb
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5183.3 | | POWDML::TNELSON | The Song Remains The Same | Wed Mar 12 1997 13:06 | 4 |
| I caught part of it when I was flipping the channels... Did anybody
notice anything odd about Bob when he was talking???
tn
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5183.4 | | BIGQ::SILVA | http://www.ziplink.net/~glen/decplus/ | Wed Mar 12 1997 13:19 | 3 |
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Did he have a hair or two out of place?
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5183.5 | Moneyline with Lou Dobbs - | FOUNDR::SKABO | Expect Nothing U never disappointed | Wed Mar 12 1997 13:23 | 303 |
5183.6 | Mucho blinko | PTOSS1::BREZLER | | Wed Mar 12 1997 13:24 | 2 |
| Actually, he was blinking very much. Must have been tired eyes from the
time change and the contact lens.
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5183.7 | good .. but can be better if ... | 33102::JAUNG | | Wed Mar 12 1997 13:35 | 20 |
| I've watched part of it ( around 7:25 pm EST). His manners is good.
The content he talked about mostly can be seen in his DVN speeches such as
Digital's (or his) vision on Internet, 64-bit technology, commitment to
NT and UNIX... I did not hear anything about OpenVMS. He also
emphasized our "Strategic" alliance with Microsoft. When he was asked
about downsizing, he paused for a few microseconds and then said 95%
has been done ( If I remember correctly) he also added that we are
hiring people aggressively. I am glad that when he was asked about
the poor performance of our stock, he did not use any excuses but
saying our performance will bring it up.
I have to admit that I am not able to perform the same level as he did
in front of the national TV audience. However, maybe my expectation is
unfairly too high or maybe he did but I've missed, I do expect for
a person in his position and in such a rare opportunity he should've
mentioned our talented engineering resources as well as other leading-edge
technology (e.g. Clustering, Firewalls,...ect) and ... emhemmm... OpenVMS.
In addition, he should address our commitment to improve customer service
to meet better satisfaction which is (IMHO) the main factor that our
customer left us for other vendors.
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5183.8 | | POWDML::TNELSON | The Song Remains The Same | Wed Mar 12 1997 14:12 | 5 |
| I think blinking very much is putting it kindly.... It looked like a
short circuit, it was actually distracting while watching him. You know
what they say about someone who blinks alot while they talk.....
tn
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5183.9 | | 13058::WESTERVELT | PLAY AT MAX VOLUME | Wed Mar 12 1997 14:15 | 7 |
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When the president of the company has a national television
audience and chooses not to mention OpenVMS, I think that's
a pretty clear message about its future.
Tom
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5183.10 | nervous, who me? | NETCAD::CREEGAN | | Wed Mar 12 1997 14:34 | 6 |
| When someone blinks alot it usually (IMHO) means
they are very nervous. A good example of that is
when a newcaster's whose first night on the news
(Lester Strong comes to mind), they blink a lot.
They are scared and nervous. At least he kept his
voice from shaking, right?
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5183.11 | Thanks for the transcript, btw | SMURF::PSH | Per Hamnqvist, UNIX/ATM | Wed Mar 12 1997 14:44 | 5 |
| Blinking your eyes could also mean that you are nervous. Being nervous can
also make you forget to say important things. Don't read too much into no
mention about OpenVMS.
>Per
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5183.12 | this isn't the first time | CSC32::M_EVANS | be the village | Wed Mar 12 1997 14:57 | 6 |
| If OVMS wasn't continually being treated as the redhaired baby, one
lack of mention wouldn't be so bad. But OVMS has been consistantly
forgotten, added in as an afterthought, or oopsed when it is pointed
out in press and employee information releases.
meg
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5183.13 | | STAR::KLEINSORGE | Frederick Kleinsorge | Wed Mar 12 1997 15:01 | 25 |
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Amen. Bright lights, nerves, blinking eyes. It doesn't have to have
some sinister meaning, like he's lying. If Bob's primary job were to
read the news on TV, or run for public office, I'd recommend he work
on the problem (it didn't help Bob "Blinky" Dole).
It's like the people who give him shit about his Porche. Heck, if *I*
made over a million a year, *I'd* own one, and try and keep it clean
and scratch free.
Demonizing Bob won't make things better, or be an appropriate way to
lay blame (like the 3 envelopes). The stock performance, revenue
decline, profit decline, employee population decline (both forced and
attrition), repetetive restructuring, and perceived lack of leadership
(real or imagined) are better things to focus on, in terms of praising
or knocking Mr. Palmer.
As to the non-mention of OpenVMS... the focus of the interview was
Millicent, and by extension the Internet, and he was asked directly
about the PC business which had been highlighted by it's visible
decline. When OpenVMS becomes more than a footnote in the strategy,
then I would expect some mention of it. Or when Galaxies gets it's 15
minutes of fame.
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5183.14 | | 13058::WESTERVELT | PLAY AT MAX VOLUME | Wed Mar 12 1997 16:06 | 20 |
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> As to the non-mention of OpenVMS... the focus of the interview was
> Millicent, and by extension the Internet, and he was asked directly
> about the PC business which had been highlighted by it's visible
> decline.
He also said the server market is the most important for Digital.
> When OpenVMS becomes more than a footnote in the strategy,
> then I would expect some mention of it.
Exactly the point; the message is being put out clearly and
consistently. The future is internet & Windows NT, and 64-bit Unix.
The argument can be made that Affinity = Windows NT and that therefore
OpenVMS actually does fit in with and support our NT strategy. I guess
the question is whether Affinity is a long term solution or a stop gap
measure.
Tom
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5183.15 | | STAR::KLEINSORGE | Frederick Kleinsorge | Wed Mar 12 1997 16:19 | 10 |
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re: .14 exactly. I'm not arguing the merits of the direction, only
that Bob was entirely consistant with the message. I do not believe
that there has been any acknoledgement that OpenVMS is anything except
a footnote in the strategy, or that Affinity is more than a way to hold
the VMS customer base.
You can argue that OpenVMS + Affinity is a better strategy than 1-3-9,
but it clearly isn't more than a footnote in it as it stands.
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5183.16 | Millicent: the internet pep show | STAR::jacobi.zko.dec.com::jacobi | Paul A. Jacobi - OpenVMS Systems Group | Wed Mar 12 1997 16:20 | 14 |
| >>> PALMER: This is a new technology that enables
>>> micro-transactions over the internet -- commercial
>>> transactions that heretofore haven't been possible
>>> to execute. It's a technology that would make it
>>> possible, for example, for a person to buy a
>>> single recipe rather than an entire cookbook and
>>> pay for it in very small amounts.
Recipes?!?! Oh! Sure! Wink, Wink, know what I mean! I've noticed a hugh
growth in internet sites devoted to exchanging "recipes".
-Paul
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5183.17 | | INDYX::ram | Ram Rao, PBPGINFWMY | Wed Mar 12 1997 17:07 | 5 |
| > Or when Galaxies gets it's 15 minutes of fame.
What is Galaxies?
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5183.18 | | PHXSS1::HEISER | Maranatha! | Wed Mar 12 1997 17:10 | 3 |
| |What is Galaxies?
a large assemblage of stars, nebulae, and interstellar gas and dust.
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5183.19 | Heard on the radio... | TALLIS::PARADIS | There's a feature in my soup! | Wed Mar 12 1997 17:10 | 6 |
| Last night on NPR's "marketplace" they had a whole story on
Millicent, including an interview with Bob Supnik. Very well
done, in my opinion. For once it showed Digital as a company
*anticipating* a major change in the way people use computers,
rather than playing catch-up.
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5183.20 | Cluster in a box | STAR::PARKE | Sometimes pigeon, Sometimes statue | Wed Mar 12 1997 17:10 | 7 |
| Re: .17
Galaxies - sometimes refered to as "Cluster in a box". It will allow
configuring such as a 32 CPU Alphaserver as an 8 node
OpenVMS Cluster with 4 cpu's in each "node".
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5183.21 | | STAR::KLEINSORGE | Frederick Kleinsorge | Wed Mar 12 1997 17:42 | 9 |
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Actually, there is a computerworld article floating around that
contains a mix of accurate and inaccurate information.
Galaxies is a software architecture that will allow efficient use of
large memories, and many CPUs... the next step beyond Clusters, and
around SMP scaling issues.
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5183.22 | Let's take this in context | KYOSS1::FEDOR | Leo | Wed Mar 12 1997 18:06 | 11 |
| Likely the interview was in concert with the introduction of
Millicent at Internet World, intended to be nothing more. When you
have 5 minutes *only* to get your message across and no more you deal
with what you have to and get this message across. BP is more than a good
presenter, the visibility doesn't hurt.
<moderate flame> I wish that more than a few could see past all
those trees and realize what's up in the forest.. <flames die off
naturally>
IMHO...
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5183.23 | Galaxies == NUMA ?? | UTROP1::jgoras-197-2-11.jgo.dec.com::olthof_h | Spellchecked Henry Although | Wed Mar 12 1997 19:38 | 8 |
| re 20, 21
Are you sure that this is NOT NUMA? Look at Sequent's homepage.
Cheers,
Henny
ps: are we late again?
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5183.24 | HW and SW responses to similar problems | WIBBIN::NOYCE | Pulling weeds, pickin' stones | Wed Mar 12 1997 19:46 | 11 |
| NUMA is a hardware technique for working around the problems that arise
when you try to provide symmetric access from dozens of processors to the
same memory system. It provides Non-Uniform (performance of) Memory Access,
with accesses to nearby memory completing faster than access to remote memory.
Galaxies is a software strategy for taking advantage of dozens of processors
sharing a common memory. While some of the conditions sound the same, there's
no requirement that one be used with the other. Of course, you could use
Galaxies on NUMA hardware, in which case you would want each separate cluster
node to deal mainly with the memory that is near it in the hardware
organization...
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5183.25 | ;-) | CSC32::PITT | | Thu Mar 13 1997 13:15 | 10 |
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re .3
>I caught part of it when I was flipping the channels... Did anybody
>notice anything odd about Bob when he was talking???
What? His lips were moving but Bill Gates voice was coming out???
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