-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- An entity claiming to be Anil Das wrote: : : Rick Osborne wrote: : > : > He triumphantly exclaimed that the encryption was 128-bit, but when : > I said "128-bit what?" he cowered and muttered that he didn't know and went : > on with his little speech. The rest of my crypto-specific questions met : > with equal dark stares. And these are the people setting industry standards... : : I should be happy that you are bashing a competitor and all, but give : them a break, OK? The marketing dweeb who has to do product pitches : on roadshows is not the same as the design engineer who designs the : system and sets technical standards. There can be a big difference in : technical knowledge about the product, and even basic competency, : between the two. : If the marketing-droid didn't have the ability to answer such a basic question, DEC should have just sent out videotape promos. I don't understand why they went through the expense of sending warm bodies out on a roadshow without giving them enough specification about the product to give an effective presentation to a predominantly tech-oriented audience. From whom did they expect the questions to come? A competent marketing professional would AT LEAST know what standards/protocols the product supported, does a car company send its sales force out without knowing if the cars use gas or diesel? Another example of how the Macro$loth mindset of tossing out random buzzwords to a chorus of ooooh's and ahhhh's has polluted the industry. In Rick's case, DEC's image was deflated. OK, so how many other people present got the same impression. And it's very likely that one of those people is a decision maker, or the anecdote got back to one of the decision makers. So, due to DEC's failure to ensure that their sales force new the product, they can probably scratch Grumman off of their potential client list. Mark - -- [] Mark Rogaski || "Computers save time like kudzu [] [] wendigo@pobox.com || prevents soil erosion." [] [] http://www.pobox.com/~wendigo/ || - afcasta@texas.net [] [] >> finger for PGP pubkey << || [] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMvjCjBz4pZwIaHjdAQEziAf/WXyN1MHZd5E77RIGwQIk37gcTKAnDATS gKpKW/MWENV5qF7sEdJ/5BEE5KpJUsUvG9+/9ZfmjwLJbaiIAiIKBkLto5oBCwFi 0uR7RFqDCtIIsVzDb+L6gzAKJ98WDTHeaQO7uy3NDo6WkuGdIDtcxe5mzuLmekjE wlnNy3PCmU6LYZivuW4L8IAXQ+Fd263DX4WaR2FbRGXmdH6/QCJHp7kerjuppNtD rCaUh1yFoxmzzZp2QLgYhZRGDNzw7SKPCcmMBcPk2873f+U9kdEWrz0LzSQwSlRN zZGXZMfsuF6PrLckRS8fGO00/ZVuh4byiqGffSP++zwEE6GDcFHR4A== =Caug -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----