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Without original R & D there IS nothing to sell. Thus vaporware or worse.
The point is to have a synergetic balance.
George Van Noy
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-----Original Message-----
From: dcarder <dcarder@xxxxxxxxx>
To: taracent@xxxxxxxxx <taracent@xxxxxxxxx>; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Priorities
>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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