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This would work rather well. Another thing we can do is to help break
down stereo types(that point and click is the be all and end all of
everything is one I wanna get rid of..)
I suggest that Jan Walter take charge along with anyone else who wants to
collect information. I can suggest sources of information if you guys
want.
--Vincent Janelle "MCSE = Must Consult Someone Experienced"
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On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jan Walter wrote:
> > Keep It Simple, Stupid. Just the facts ma'am.
> >
> > That's not to say we can't have a good looking and professional booth,
> > but if we concentrate on trying to "market" ourselves like the big
> > companies do, we're undercutting our biggest strength: we're *not* the
> > big companies.
> >
> > Brian.
>
> The "Just the Facts" approach will appeal to many people at Comdex - it
> will give them a rest from the hype that makes Comdex such a suffocating
> environment. Put it on banners. Put up signs like "Get the facts from
> booth ...". We should make a point to visitors that we're not here to
> fill their head with empty promises.
>
> We'd need flyers with cost-of-ownership data, cost of implementation,
> time to rollout, maintenance hours a year, avg number of reboots per
> year, and so-on. Real stats. Just the facts. "Easy point-and-click"
> promises are what makes these people mad - try making MS Exchange do
> something different sometime (like forwarding e-mail to a different
> server without using either Outlook or the Exchange client), and then
> try sendmail or qmail. Get my drift?