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From: ssh@esl.UUCP (Sam)
Newsgroups: misc.invest,comp.misc,comp.lang.lisp,comp.ai,comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Re: Symbolics stock
Keywords: Symbolics stock
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Date: 28 May 88 11:20:19 GMT
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->marsh@mbunix (Ralph Marshall) sez ->
->Summarized advice:
->1) Face squarely in directions of Symbolics shares.
->2) Turn 180 degrees.
->3) Run like hell; don't look back or you turn into a pillar of cons cells.
->
->Symbolics sells GREAT software; they just can't push boxes worth a damn. 
->Their equipment is way too expensive for deliverable systems in almost any
->realistic situation, their maintenance costs even for research use is
->exhorbitant, and they don't seem to get the message from what customer
->base they have left.
...(More stuff deleted)...

For this reason I've recommended any project I've been related with
NOT be Symbolics-based for the last four years.  Obviously, I'm not
alone.

I also regret that many mistakes killed the D-machines from Xerox,
which were great to work in/on, but were doomed by brain-damaged sales
/ marketing strategists at Xerox.

						-- Sam