[Fot] State of F1

[Bill Babcock]

A common problem. At a lot of technology companies any engineer who  
couldn't hack it wound up in sales or marketing. Tektronix was a  
perfect example. They insisted on marketing that looked like spec  
sheets--"you have to include the fazamma feature, people need to know  
we can fazamma"

HP was the blessed exception. I never met an HP marketer that wasn't  
first rate. their biggest problem was they were all used to being the  
smartest people in the room. More than three of them in a meeting and  
you had trouble.

On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Joe Curry wrote:

> They worked just fine.  However, the Engineers at TI who posed as  
> marketing
> gurus didn't have the faintest idea how to sell them properly.
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig [mailto:wensley_Tr at comcast.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:01 PM
> To: Joe Curry; 'Bill Babcock'; 'David W. Riddle'
> Cc: fot at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Fot] State of F1
>
> Is that why they didn't work right
> Craig
> just a little fun
>

Bill Babcock
Babcock & Jenkins
Billb at bnj.com
503.936.7660
www.bnj.com

Editor
Ke Nalu e-Magazine
Paddlesurfing's Web Journal

Bill at kenalu.com
www.kenalu.com
blog: www.ponohouse.com/ponoblog