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                                                                Wed 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: "OpenVMS is ..." - look at www.openvms.digital.com

Larry D Bohan, Jr wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:15:33 +0200, "Jacek W. Tobiasz"
> <jtb@ATM.COM.PL> wrote:
>
> >Just looked today (22/09/1998) at www.openvms.digital.com
> >and what have found at the top of page:
> >
> >              OpenVMS is today what Microsoft
> >              wants Windows NT v8.0 to be!
>
> Who here wants to bet that if MSFT gets wind of
> this banner, it'll get yanked same day ?
>
> Much like that NetPC project last year
> (Robert?, sez Bill, are you *my* Friend?, or Ellison's Friend?)
>
> for myself, I'm always leary of reading too much into marketing
> efforts, and especially Web pages.  How connected are
> the marketeers/WebMeisters to the line managers, the ones
> watching the bottom line ?
>
> I doubt anyone outside of marketing, is closely tuned in
> to what happens in the advertisiment campaigns.
>
> But, it'd Be nice to be wrong, and find out, say, that
> Pfieffer hovers over and badgers his marketing staff.
>
> That being said, I'd see to see that banner, running
> in a full-page spread in the Wall St Journal.

Well, as of this morning it's still there. I have it from a well placed
source that the headline is there at the order of Steve Kirchoff. Steve
is marketing manager for John Rose, who is VP of Compaq's Enterprise
Computing division. I'm told to expect more of the same.

Most of us in VMS Engineering are still in shock over seeing a public
statement as strong as this...