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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 476.26 | | HELIX::SONTAKKE | | Thu May 29 1997 11:51 | 10 |
| I suppose with Digital "not be mentioned" seems to be standard part of
many deals. With Sun, IBM and HP, customers are not ashamed to admit
their association with their vendor of choice. There is significantly
more positive collateral publicity to these vendors.
"We are forced to use Digital but would prefer not to" seems to be
the damning indictment and probably a significant rationale for our
saddened state of affairs.
- Vikas
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| 476.27 | | NQOS01::16.135.24.78::Workbench | Inside Intel | Thu May 29 1997 13:32 | 8 |
| No, Intel also uses IBM, HP, and to a lesser extent Sun, and has asked
those vendors not to publicize the fact. It's their company policy.
They recently beat the crap out of Lotus for saying that Intel's
factories couldn't run without Notes (not true in any sense) in a
advertisement without Intel's permission. They are now moving off of
Lotus' cc:mail.
Bruce
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| 476.31 | Inter-relationship | STAR::jacobi.zko.dec.com::jacobi | Paul A. Jacobi - OpenVMS Systems Group | Thu May 29 1997 17:18 | 12 |
| >>> We also find it curious that they are asking for damages from a company that
>>> BUYS product from them."
I find it curious that we are asking for damages from a company that BUYS products
from us!
Remember, Intel is both a vendor *and* a customer of Digital, in the same way
Digital is a vendor *and* a customer of Intel.
-Paul
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| 476.28 | Alpha Inside | MSBCS::BMORRISON | | Thu May 29 1997 17:27 | 3 |
| Intel also sells Digital devices that go into Alpha Systems. They
could make life very interesting.
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| 476.29 | At least there's no "Intel Inside" on the box | UNXA::ZASLAW | Steve Zaslaw | Thu May 29 1997 17:30 | 5 |
| > Intel also sells Digital devices that go into Alpha Systems. They
> could make life very interesting.
Yeah, when I was upgrading the firmware of my DIGITAL UNIX workstation I was
suprised to learn I was loading an Intel chip.
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| 476.30 | | HELIX::SONTAKKE | | Thu May 29 1997 17:33 | 7 |
| Most newer Alpha systems have migrated to using different PCI-LegacyBus
bridge chip such as one made by Cypress CY82C693.
However, that decision was taken many many months ago. The rumor has
it that Intel did not like people using subset of their PCI chipsets.
- Vikas
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| 476.32 | there is a difference! | INDYX::ram | Ram Rao, PBPGINFWMY | Thu May 29 1997 19:22 | 16 |
|
> >>> We also find it curious that they are asking for damages from a company that
> >>> BUYS product from them."
>
> I find it curious that we are asking for damages from a company that BUYS products
> from us!
> Remember, Intel is both a vendor *and* a customer of Digital, in the same way
> Digital is a vendor *and* a customer of Intel.
There is a difference. The damages Intel is asking for relate to information
pertaining to the products they sell us. The damages Digital asks from
Intel is UNRELATED to information we provide them about products we sell
them.
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| 476.33 | | SMURF::PSH | Per Hamnqvist, UNIX/ATM | Fri May 30 1997 00:25 | 10 |
| | There is a difference. The damages Intel is asking for relate to information
| pertaining to the products they sell us. The damages Digital asks from
| Intel is UNRELATED to information we provide them about products we sell
| them.
I think your emphasis should be on SELL not UNRELATED. We have supposedly
provided Intel with information as part of business discussions. So the
lawsuit relates to information we would have *liked* to sell, but never did.
>Per
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| 476.34 | Why are you folks doing this? | WRKSYS::SCHUMANN | | Fri May 30 1997 01:16 | 6 |
| Mr Moderator, please shut down these threads related to the lawsuits.
It is not necessary or desirable to increase the amount of data and the number of
individuals subjected to discovery process.
--RS
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| 476.35 | | MSBCS::BROCK | | Fri May 30 1997 12:12 | 4 |
| 476.36 | | a-61.tunnel.crl.dec.com::needle | Money talks. Mine says "Good-Bye!" | Fri May 30 1997 14:25 | 5 |
| Sorry about the delay. I'm the only moderator left, and didn't have the
appropriate access. That's been "fixed" and this string will be hidden,
pending deletion.
j.
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