DEC

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Sat Apr 24 14:00:04 1999

> That's the name of the guy! Stan Olson . . . the fellows at that one pitch
> to which I was referring in my original post on this subject were touting
> Stan Olson as being so cagey that he kept the gov out of the company's books
> by selling his wares to the gov through integration contractors so that the
> folks at the gov could specify DEC without naming them, and the various
> competing contractors would always decode the RFP to mean DEC and so DEC
> would win every time. I thought it was clever, if true, but the genius's
> name was Stan Olson.
>

No. Stan Olson's Ken Olson's brother and one of the folks who
kept pushing the company into things like the VT78 and WPS word
processors. He left the company a while back.

I think you've got a serious anti DEC bias here.

Someone's very misinformed here or (more likely) the sales guy's full of it.

Q: How do you tell a computer salesman is lying?
A: His lips move.

Q: What's the difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman?
A: The used car salesman KNOWS when he's lying.

Bill
Received on Sat Apr 24 1999 - 14:00:04 BST