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As I remember; you can't have R & D without Sales and Marketing first.
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> From: taracent <taracent@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Priorities
> Date: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 6:50 PM
>
> taracent wrote:
> >
> > Dennis Holverstott wrote:
> > >
> > > I think a couple of lines from the recently posted financial
statement
> > > tell the story about why there are so many unhappy campers.
> > >
> > > Three Months Ended Year Ended
> > > December 31, December 31,
> > > 1997 1996 1997
1996
> > > Product development 540,076 342,474 1,890,392
1,041,131
> > > Sales and marketing 3,291,973 1,472,205 11,272,290
5,617,931
> > >
> >
> > Dennis,
> >
> > This is amazing, that Omega spent only 1.9 million of new Product
> > development and 11.3 million on sales and marketing for the year. Is
> > there something wrong with this picture? We call all see why release 5
> > is behind schedule. Maybe they should move some of those marketing
> > types from sales to programming, lock them in a room, and tell them NOT
> > to come out until a release 5 and a Y2K product fix is completed.
> >
> > Someone's comment about attempting to sell this to large firms is
> > correct, they will not buy anything these days that is not Y2K
> > compliant. With this fact in hand, version 4 is a dead duck because
> > they won't touch it because of the Y2K problem. Now we see why all of
> > the money is being spent on marketing, to sell version 4 to the general
> > "DUMB" public.
> >
> > I hope they deliver the version 5 before they go under. Given their
> > stock performance over the last few months, the financial markets are
> > not impressed with their results. I hope that they are a better
> > software firm than they are stock performance firm.
> >
> > R Tareilo
>
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