| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
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| 2971.1 | I submitted my lead through CHAMPS | DPDMAI::BERNAL | set a goal and go for it | Wed Mar 30 1994 16:17 | 3 | 
|  |     	Submit a sales lead through CHAMPS .
    
    	Frank
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| 2971.2 | action taken on your lead | NEMAIL::MINER |  | Wed Mar 30 1994 16:27 | 7 | 
|  |     Butch,
    
    I just passed this lead on to Mike Quick, the Sales unit Mgr for the retail
    industry.
    
    
    -Brian
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| 2971.3 | What territory are they in? | METMV2::FIELDS |  | Thu Mar 31 1994 08:08 | 9 | 
|  |     
    
    	Is this customer's calling address in the Northeast?  If so 
      I can have one of our Workstation Sales folks call you and get 
      details.
    
    	Bill Fields
    	(Who knows what district?) 
    	Burlington, MA
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| 2971.4 | rocks, hand grenades and ammo | CSTEAM::FARLEY |  | Thu Mar 31 1994 09:23 | 32 | 
|  |     
    
    ...and the Competitive Hotline is eager and ready to help "explain"
    the deficiencies and shortcomings across many areas of Sun, H-P, IBM
    and others as well as price/performance comparisons.
    
    We provide immediate answers, competite advice and suggestions to
    anyone looking to win the purchase order.
    
    If Burlington Coat Factory chooses to stay with SUN, the port from
    SunOS (Berkely Kernal Based) to Solaris (At&T's SVR3 kernal) is no
    trivial task.  As a matter of fact, Sun's own documentation (which
    we can provide copies of) clearly states that they expect 40%-60%
    of the applications running on SunOS "Will *NOT* run on Solaris"!!!!!
    
    Porting applications from SunOS to OSF/1 is much easier.
    
    Digital is also running a "Sun trade-in program" where every Sun
    workstation can be traded in for up to $7,000 in credit, depending on
    what Alpha box they select.  However, as it presently stands, this 
    program is scheduled to end on April 2.
    
    
    For competitive information contact:
    
    The Competitive Hotline
    1-800-DEC-ISIT
    
    
    Kevin Farley
    Competitive Hotline Sales Consultant
    
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| 2971.5 | thanks | SPECXN::LEITZ | butch leitz | Thu Mar 31 1994 17:12 | 19 | 
|  | Thanks  Kevin, good tip on the hotline. 
Also  thanks all, we got the right people finally working on this thanks to
your forwarding this note around & from the several calls I received & made
with redirects.
If  you're  Joe or Jane Deccie with any similar leads & don't know where to
start, it looks like the most straight-forward thing  is  to  contact  your
nearest  sales  unit  manager  & get redirected until you connect with "the
right folks".  I wish it were somewhat simpler, but it wasn't too painful.
I got two good names, one from a field sales support guy who saw this  note
& knew who "should" be the right Digital interface (& turns out it was) & a
second name from mail passed on from somebody in Santa Clara to the head of
the  retail  business  industry  group who passed it to the (finally) other
"right person". Both these people know each other & will together  work  on
getting Digital back in to Burlington Coat Factory... one step at a time. 
Hope they're successful.
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| 2971.6 | Hoping for a sunset over Burlington | SMAUG::GARROD | DCU Board of Directors Candidate | Thu Mar 31 1994 18:00 | 8 | 
|  |     Re .-1
    
    Way to go. And of course it goes without saying that this notesfile was
    instrumental in hooking you up with the right people quickly.
    
    Let's hope it's Sunset over Burlington soon.
    
    Dave
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| 2971.7 | sales help!! | FREMP::ACQUAH |  | Fri Apr 01 1994 08:31 | 3 | 
|  | I think it will be a great idea if the result of this particular sales get posted in this notesfile
thanks
ed
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| 2971.8 | good for you! | TOLKIN::DUMART |  | Fri Apr 01 1994 12:18 | 17 | 
|  |     After reading through all the notes detailing our problems it was
    so refreshing to see someone take action. I, for one, am glad that
    the topic wasn't dropped and that people responded. We need to do
    more of this kind of positive action. 
    
    I also think that Bob Palmer should be hearing about our concerns,
    especially around TIMELY delivery of our products to customers.
    Would someone please post his E-mail address. Hopefully all of us
    that are concerned about DIGITAL and want the company to survive
    can write to Bob and make a positive impact in doing so. And if 
    his managers have not already informed him of the problems then shame
    on them. (and if he's not listening then shame on him). Get someone
    who can get things moving in the right direction. It doesn't take
    a rocket scientist to fiqure out that if we don't get our products
    to our customers ON TIME (THEIR TIME) we won't be in business for long.
    
    Paula
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| 2971.9 | Where ARE you? | BKEEPR::BREITNER | Field Network Mechanic | Fri Apr 01 1994 18:26 | 9 | 
|  | For the Field types who monitor the conference, it would be a big help if a
requestor such as .0 would state where they are (and I don't mean site code -
but rather city, state/province, country).
If you yell "FIRE" on an open phone line we gotta know where you are ...
Glad this opportunity got attention.
Norm
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| 2971.10 | Where is the customer is currently important | STAOFF::SMITH | All that is gold does not glitter | Sat Apr 02 1994 07:40 | 18 | 
|  |     Re .-1
    
    "where are you", I thought that is what vtx elf is for 8^)
    
    The more important thing in this case was where the customer was.
    
    I was reading about the opportunity at 6:30 AM before going into
    the US wide workstation sales meeting.
    
    I didn't want to tease folks by saying there was a 200 seat SUN
    displacement and then not be able to say who's territory it was in.
    
    Believe me, our part of the sales force is energized, and we will
    respond.
    
    Regards,
    
    Dan
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| 2971.11 | More TLA's that are meaningless to most | USHS01::HARDMAN | Massive Action = Massive Results | Sat Apr 02 1994 10:14 | 9 | 
|  |     > "where are you", I thought that is what vtx elf is for 8^)
    
    ELF is of little help unless you've got all the worlwide site codes
    memorized. Finding out that someone is located at site ZXK doesn't help
    me much. Next I have to find a copy of the Digital phone book so I can
    look up the site code cross reference. :-(
    
    Harry
    
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| 2971.12 | re .11 That part of the phone book is vtx TEL | LNDRFR::ADOERFER | Hi-yo Server, away! | Sat Apr 02 1994 11:27 | 1 | 
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