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Subject: Re: Tale of Xerox marketing woe...
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Date: Sun, 3-Aug-86 21:55:37 EDT
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"CHRISTOPHER E. SHULL" <shull@wharton-10.ARPA> writes:
[an amusing, and all-too-familiar story of Xerox marketing stupidity]
>     So folks, what's the real story?

	I believe the real story is that Xerox marketing people have their
heads wedged firmly up their *@#$#$'s (this *is* a family show, isn't it?).
We went through much the same deal when we were looking at workstations.  I
had heard about the Xerox Star workstations and tried to investigate
furthur.  Just like you, I knew next to nothing about the Xerox product
when I went into it, and knew only epsilon more after a few weeks of
talking to Xerox marketing.  Unfortunately, that next-to-nothing looks like
it's a damn sight more than their sales people know.

	I must be in a bitchy mood tonight -- that makes 2 "to hell with
this company" flames in 10 minutes.  Oh well.