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In article <1992Jul30.050022.27714@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, chu@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Eugene Chu) writes:

|>I have a question about the availability of the ALPHA worksations
|>for end users.  Three months ago, I heard from various people, including
|>my DEC sales reps, that the workstations will be available by July 15.
|>Then when the day rolled around, I was told that its release has been
|>delayed by about 3 months.  

This is nonsense.  All of our public commitments  have been "end of the 
year" for as far back as I can remember (but then it was end of 1992)

|>All this time, I've been waiting to order
|>one of these highly advertised systems, but I can't because someone at
|>DEC will not release them.  Then recently I heard that one of our labs
|>is getting a loaner, for FREE! 

Someone is getting a Beta test unit, which are provided free of charge 
 There's nothing different here than any other product rollout

|> Now, I wonder why DEC is willing to
|>loan one out to someone else in my organization, while they won't
|>sell one to me, when I ready and willing to PAY for it?

We'll sell you one at the end of the year

|>
|>Then there is a question of how informed or coordinated the DEC sales
|>reps are.  While my official reps are telling me that I can't buy one
|>for another 3 months, a rep from CalTech told me that they are available
|>NOW, and DEC's plan is to get so many thousands of them out by the end
|>os September.

Part of the Alpha rollout strategy is to have lots of third party
applications ready when we announce our systems.  Given that there
are lots of third parties out there, this is not inconsistent with their
requirements to port, debug and qualify a third party product


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William M. Jackson
Alpha Workstation Product Marketing Manager
Workstation Engineering
Digital Equipment Corporation
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Mail:	Jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com