Conference 7.286::digital

    
    
     Speak for yourself...
    

    
    I remember in "Operating System 101" when I learned it, my professor
    asked me to solve "Bootstrap" problem ?
    
    I got C for that, what's your score ?  Sounds familiar ?!!
    
    Michael..

re:                      <<< Note 1928.1 by MATE3::SYSTEM >>>
>                               -< Synergy pays >-
>     Speak for yourself...
    
Well, since ELF doesn't indicate anyone with the surname of SYSTEM, apparently
you didn't care to follow your own advice.

-Jack

    Especially, when a query of the Node Master file, says that MATE3:: is a
    vaxmate pc in MaryLand.
    
    q

    
    
    to MATE3::SYSTEM....
    
    
    		I am, along with the stock market..we closed under
    		$37 a share...sounds like Wall Street has lots of
    		confidence in DEC now. Moral stinks, people are
    		looking over shoulders wondering who'll be the
    		one cut. We gotta get focused, or we may be getting
    		paid in YEN!
    
    		foul

    Most people are focussed...
    
    Maybe it's time for someone to say: 
    
    	"Well, Jack, you've had two years, and our bank account's down
         half a billion, profit has gone, shares about 40% of what it
         was when we switched Jack's, so...
    
         As Pier_Carlo might say: 'Ciau, Jack'."
    
    Then we realize that, while VAX was a different style of computer,
    Alpha is not.  It's just better and faster [today!] and our only real
    differentiation is the software [read: Operating Systems, Networking,
    Tools and Utilities] and the brains (or luck) to be MIGRATING via Open
    VMS and OSF and then get down to being, not All things to all people,
    but the world's premier General purpose computer company.
    
    Disband any committee with more than 8 members, remove any
    'manager' with less than 12 working reports, dismantle GIA and anything
    else which stifles the flow of info and enthusiasm.  FIRE (no packages
    at all!) anyone who is a 4.  Take a stand after that that Digital will
    run Digital, and while we would be happy to PRESENT our strategies and
    directions to the media, we will not be forming them based upon
    reporter and analyst comments.  Then say "No layoffs until we're broke
    so the 'individual contributors' can stop worrying about whether or not
    they'll be eating next week and put their energies into doing the job
    rather than saving the job.
    
    Just for laughs begin training people.  Like the managers with the big
    egos and nothing behind them.  There are countless others.
    
    Remove from authority and maybe from the company anyone who says "It's
    the economy" or uses the word Business - as in Business Case or
    Business Unit.  
    
    Focus?  Good G*d, people!  We manufacture and sell computers of many
    shapes and sizes.  We - as a computer manufacturer with some pinache
    and no little intelligence - engineer and sell system software,
    development tools, etc. appropriate to making the most of those
    computers.  We service what we sell.  We'll help you make the most of
    what we sell.  This is not difficult to comprehend, is it?
    
    Straighten out!
    
    
    Don
    Who'ld like Digital to stick around long enough to retire from it.

    	According to the last stock quote that I saw, WAL-MART's stock
    price is about to pass DEC's !!
    
    
    		-Hoop- (who_spends_a_lot_of_time_at_Wal-Mart....aaaaaa!!)

re .8:

Huh?  Walmart's at 50-something.  If you're talking market capitalization
(stock price * shares outstanding), I think Walmart's way beyond DEC.

    RE: -1
    
    	You are very much correct. I misquoted the stock price; it's a
    little over $53 per share, the last time I checked.
    
    		Thanks for correcting my error,
    
    			-Hoop-