Re: interesting take on Olsen's "no reason for any individual tohave

From: Bob Kaplow (kaplow_r_at_encompasserve.org.TRABoD)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: 26 Nov 2004 22:16:00 -0600

In article <41A669AD.63D9DD76@teksavvy.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> writes:
> jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>> Palmer was supposed to strip the company of cash and all product lines
>> that had nothing to do with the customer support piece of the biz.
>> This is an educated guess based on what happened inside the company; I
>> saw no documents.
>
> No, Palmer was SUPPOSED to take a big fat Digital from Olsen and trim the fat
> and turn it into a lean and mean competitive company. He didn't know how to do
> this, and instead of admitting he was incompetant, he decided to sell off
> assets untl company was small enough to be purchased.

Like he ran MOSTEK into the ground before joining DEC.

Last I heard, he was at AMD :-(

I wish he'd go work for Microsoft or CA.

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