[Info-vax] Steve Jobes [was: Apple says ...]

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:

> Palmer did reduce the price gap in many instances, but not enough. And
> he did some marketing, but the marketing was aimed at moving VMS users
> to Unix (scaring new customers away since they no longer knew where DEC
> was going) instead of attracting new customers.

He just followed market demand, and the market wanted Unix.

> 
> DEC needed a Gerstner to rebuilt/re-invent the company. Palmer wasn't
> even close to being CEO material and certaintly not able to rebuild a
> company.
> 
> Remember the constant reorgs after each bad financial quarter ? Palmer
> couldn't even set a long term plan and tell Wall Street to be patient.

I doubt that you can "tell" Wall Street anything, and certainly not
to be patient.
With stockholders expecting quarterly results, employees demanding
their monthly salary,
and a boat anchor called Alpha not selling well enough,
there's not much he could do other than selling the company
piece after piece.