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It's not just R & D, it Tech. and Prod. support
and enough knowledgable people in those depts.
to keep throughput fast. Lacking these, there's
no need for Marketing, because nobody will buy
the goods.
Just my .02
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, dcarder wrote:
> As I remember; you can't have R & D without Sales and Marketing first.
>
> ----------
> > 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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