Seems like lyons has a reputation.
What do you do when one of the world's most powerful business publications, out of the blue and counter to your reams of evidence, decides to tell its readers that you're headed for an early grave? First, you get mad and threaten to pull ads. That does little except incense the editors. Next comes crisis management mode, in full effect.
marketingcomputers.com
Still, given a broader view of the facts, it would appear that the Lyons article may have transcended the concept of "gutsy" and contained an interpretation of the email market that, at best, was original and, at worst, imaginative.
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Ironically, Simmons says in 10 years at Lotus, this was the first time he refused a reporter at a national business magazine time with the CEO. Given the ability to do it again, would he have fed Papows to Lyons? Hardly. Simmons says he provided Forbes with a number of sources who had converted from xmailto Notes, but Lyons didn't call them, and seemed uninterested in talking to anyone but Papows. "If Jeff had been interviewed, it would have appeared that the reporter did a professional job on the story and did his homework-when nothing could be further from the truth," Simmons says. Lyons "spoke for 45 minutes to one of our brightest people and used 10 words to make him look uninterested." |
