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<<<If a VP of Marketing is not a committed optimist, I'd hate to see the pessimists at Amati.>>>
I think the part about a marketing director having to be a committed optimist is in such fine print, Tac couldn't read it. I like him. He's bright, he's talented, he's ambitious, he's dogged. I just don't think he's a BS-er, which is what you really mean by "committed optimist," at least in regards to marketing. I lived on the edge of the construction industry for 20 years and, believe me, I can spot a BS artist a mile away. Tac doesn't even come close. But, I don't think it's necessarily a negative. He certainly doesn't have to down-grade his predictions. All revisions will be upgrades.
>I suspect he meant "the earliest we'll see rollouts is next year."< isn't that one and the same. It all comes down to rollouts starting in '98, not '97.>>>
You may be right. I just noted a subtle shift in emphasis. Shouldn't have written it before my first cup of coffee. :)
The article reads, "Even committed optimists like Amati Communications' vice president of marketing Benjamin Berry said that DSL services are unlikely this year. "ADSL rollouts clearly will be coming next year at the earliest," Berry said." >>>
He's right, there'll be no service this year -- or very little --- and deployment will be in '98, but he should have stopped there and not added, "at the earliest." That makes it seem as though '98 might not see any deployments and if that's the case, I'll take my money somewhere else.
I did try contacting him and he wasn't in.
<<<I won't beat this deployment thing into the ground anymore. Suffice to say we both have differing opinions. I'd much rather you be right than me. My portfolio is counting on it.>>>
So is mine. And if the company doesn't come through with announcements next week, I'm moving to Afghanistan.
Night!
Pat |
