Conference 7.286::digital

	Not to sidetrack your note too much but I also find it rather 
incredulous that we charge our customers $16.00 for the "Digital Technical
Journal" which is, IMHO, one of the best marketing tools for touting our
incredible technology.

Dennis 

    
    Re: .-1
    
    Well if they take a job in Digital Engineering they get a free copy!!!!
    
    Work here, save $16..
    
    8*)
    
    Re: .-2
    
    I'm shocked that HP has beat us on this one little example... Our
    marketing isn't one to be fooled in general...  This will never happen
    again...
    
    8*)  HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA 
    
    OTHER NOTE:
    
    In a surprize move IBM and HP drop those well known names in favor
    of the full names.   They figure why confuse the customer with
    that same old names.  Also, the company logos will be slightly modified
    to be a different color and have a slight change in the shape of the
    letters.
    
    In another similar move GM chose to change thier name and also move
    the location of all of the well known controls.  The blinker control
    and starter key switches will now be in a foot peddle.  Customers are
    getting all to familiar with the old controls.
    

>     Work here, save $16..

Actually, that's $16 per single issue. A 1-yr subscription will set a 
US-based nonemployee (non-college-faculty, non-PhD-candidate [EE or 
CS]) back $40. That $40 saved sure looks a lot better than $16 to me - 
and, note, that's $40 saved PER YEAR! The longer you work here, the 
more you save. I'm kind of suprised that isn't highlighted in our 
recruiting efforts.

    I save even more - I don't underdand a word, so I must be saving my
    brain for something else.
    
    Alan
    

    Just as an FYI in reply to .0, in the July, 1995, issue of Computer
    Technology Review you will find on page 38 the third article of a
    three-part series of by-lined articles written by product and marketing
    managers in Digital's Storage Business Unit.  This one, by Paul
    Massiglia, addresses "Dynamic Adjustment of Update Algorithms."
    
    Also in that issue, Kirby Wadsworth, manager of multivendor product
    marketing for the Storage Business Unit, has a by-lined article
    beginning on page 14, titled "On Becoming a Successful Storage VAR."
    
    And, finally, also on page 14, our optical storage products marketing
    manager, John Celi, is quoted extensively in an article on
    "Multifunction Optical Jukeboxes..."
    
    IMHO, we are getting the messages out there.  
    
    Regards,
    
    Tom

If anyone had paid attention to a product proposal I wrote two years ago, we
could have beaten HP to the market with this functionality.

Nah, DTJ doesn't cost you anything - it's free on the Web.  Here's a
couple excerpts from what a customer had to say:

[...] 
 as listed in the new Digital Tech Jornal, has all kinds
of interesting alpha 600 details (and 21164/8400 etc).
[...]
 
I have a strong personal
preference for the 600.  I'm trying to back up the preference with facts
so that I can make a strong argument to the 4 people on the 160k grant.

Dec has a market share disadvantage, and a applications disadvantage,
but I think that will change, opengl, and standards are helping, etc.

But on a grant of that size I really want the best machine for them,
not me.  So I want to make a good case that the Dec is the best bet.
[...]
The dec web site has been instrumental to my information collection,
a big part of that is the Digital Tech Journal.

The Dec people on the net have been very helpful also.... 

    Nah, it can't be our DTJ, they keep referring to some company called
    DEC.