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Again, when they delivered an AXP to our demo room 5 years ago and it
had *NO* software to run (not even demos) we were told to "go fish" for
demos on the net, build 'em ourselves.
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?? Perhaps I missed something, but what possible relevance does
comparing a situation of 5 years ago with todays reality ? 5 years
is ancient history - sort of like comparing today with 286/386
environment..
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Until we have some OTHER things in our portfolio (i.e. like storage and
networks), staking our future on alfer is risky at best.
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Are you trying to say we don't have storage or network solutions ????
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The article is *NOT* disappointing - it's real. More in the 3M area
need to read it and get in gear to change the company.
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Again, while I agree our marketing could certainly improve (todays
ad's are definately better than 6 months ago, so it is improving..),
I do not agree that this article is real life - it is based on one
persons msconceptions of what is really happening ... and our many
doom and gloomers within Digital accepting it as fact.
Bottom line is that we are (IMO) entering a new phase whereby Intel
loses it's monopoly to AMD, Cyrix and Alpha and other chips such as
Strong Arm... see .3 for pointers on articles whereby even the press
are starting to wonder ..
Also, reference the following review of current chip technology:
http://www.heise.de/ct/english/9705154/
Ok - so obviously , the sw needs to be there - that is absolutely
correct. However, given most of MS's sw will be on Alpha shortly
(BO, Word, Excel, VB, VC++, IE etc), Pro/Engineer, Softimage (other CAD
partners as well- with the exception of Autocad who I beleive will be
coming back to the fold shortly IMO), LOTUS Notes, Oracle (big
time-reference http://www.oracle.com:81/NT/news/html/digital.html)
are all examples where the SW is coming big time.
Now, if the trend was really dying, would Borland have just announced
they are doing a major port to Alpha ? Reference:
http://www.borland.com/about/press/1997/digital.html and
http://www.digital.com/PR00T0/
What about the TV industry starting to accept Alpha ? Reference:
http://www.digital.com/PR00SR/
Now that we are going back to the old model of a simplified sales
force focussing on solutions (what a novel idea), many of our
internal issues should also disappear..
I've said it before and I still believe it - now is a good time to
buy DIGITAL stock :-)
Course, someone might accuse me of being an optimist, but it's a lot
easier than walking around with a rain cloud over my head !
:-)
/ Kerry
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| I've run a couple of small Delphi 1 apps on my office Alpha with FX!32.
They're *fast*, too. Faster than VB apps.
Chalk it up to my ignorance or whatever, but I was pleasantly surprised
when the apps came up looking like NT apps (I created them with DELPHI 1
on my home system running DOS 5 and Windows 3.1).
Art
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