Some facts about PTEC and SYSF
<SYSF gained a lot of market share in PCMCIA>.
That was true about two years ago SYSF was gaining more shares in PCMCIA. But it is not true anymore. SYSF is extremely nervous that PTEC is gaining more and more shares in PCMCIA market. SYSF does not like that PTEC has aggreement/revenue with/from Intel, Dell, Compaq, TI, Hitachi, NEC, Samsung, IBM, Acer (all in PCMCIA). SYSF is even more nervous when they found out that PTEC has a real and true solution for PCMCIA Win95 (using 32-bit VxD - unlike SYSF which is still today 16-bit DOS drivers running under Win95). When PTEC started to demonstrate PCM95(tm) to their customers - PTEC customers went banana !. Besides these OEM companies felt that they were cheated by SYSF after the demo of PCM95.
<PTEC has a poor history of developing new products>.
This is completely untrue. New products and new features added to the PCMCIA products was and is still the best that people can get (compare to SYSF). Started 3 years ago, PTEC offeres "on-the-fly" re-configuration of PCMCIA cards (PCCards). Today SYSF still does not offer this feature, forcing the user to reboot his/her computer. About 18 months ago PTEC came with the idea to reduce the memory footprint (more than 120 Kbytes of drivers). They succeeded to get a size of less than 20 Kbytes in low memory! SYSF does not have this feature either. In fact SYSF decided to remove PCMCIA function calls in order to reduce their memory footprint. In the opposite side, PTEC solution not only get less than 20 Kbytes but PTEC PCMCIA product provides the full implementation of PCMCIA specification.
In March, I met the Director of PCMCIA group of SYSF, and I started to talk about the memory footprint solution from PTEC. He definitly aggreed that was a very important feature, but he did not understand why PTEC did not market this product better, raising questions about the marketing.
About new products and features PTEC was the first one to demonstrate Zoomed Video PCCard under Win95 using 32-bit Plug-n-Play VxDs. SYSF still does not have this feature.
<Underpaid programmers at PTEC>.
This is a disinformation and I know what I am talking about. PTEC does pay their System Enginneers very well and PTEC does pay overtime !
<SystemWizard and Call avoidance "promise" to solve 90% of Win95 system problem>
I will change the word "promise" by "pretend". This call avoidance is only a dream. If SystemWizard is using DMI BIOS in order to solve System problem (i.e conflicts). It cannot apply to PCMCIA. The problem will remain with PCMCIA when using SYSF Call avoidance.
<Selling PTEC at 20.00>
Big mistake. Let's talk again when it will be at 30.00+ next year. |
