[Fot] State of F1

[Joe Curry]

Maybe that was why TI sold the Data Systems Group to HP in 1987.  

 

Joe C.

 

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From: Bill Babcock [mailto:Billb at bnj.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:10 PM
To: Joe Curry
Cc: 'Craig'; 'David W. Riddle'; fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] State of F1

 

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

 

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