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To: Doug Skrypek who wrote (3505)	11/10/1997 3:10:00 AM
From: Esvida	Respond to of 14451

> SGI's sales people are a joke. Our company has been trying to > get a price from them on a server for over a week... > I guess they don't want the business, Sun wins again. Sun needs all the help it can get - from people to unwanted SGI business - to fight the dark force. Please help! -Al

To: Doug Skrypek who wrote (3505)	11/10/1997 3:24:00 AM
From: Mark Dalton	Respond to of 14451

Let me know the details: mwd@cray.com I will talk to the people needed to get this resolved. I will need: 1. What you want (either the system, or usage requirements). 2. Contact person you have been working with. 3. Who to contact at your company. Mark

To: Doug Skrypek who wrote (3505)	11/10/1997 8:28:00 AM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Doug - Our company has been trying to get a price from them on a server for over a week... I guess they don't want the business If you can provide some details, I will gladly put you in touch with someone here @ SGI that will accomodate your needs. -justinb (justinb@cray.com)

To: Doug Skrypek who wrote (3505)	11/10/1997 4:27:00 PM
From: Marcelo Magnasco	Respond to of 14451

Doug says: SGI's sales people are a joke. Our company has been trying to get a price from them on a server for over a week... I guess they don't want the business, Sun wins again. I have to second that. Even more than marketing, the salespeople have to be ready and willing to sell in order to make a business. Many SGI salesdroids will only pay attention if you want to buy a 64 procs O2000, and will not give you the time of day if you want to buy an O2. Horror stories abound in comp.sys.sgi.* I've long since gone to a VAR. I order an O2 and I get it within two days. (Once the O2 arrived before the PO left our purchasing dept!!!). You would guess I would be a valuable customer: I got 15 sgi workstations (octane, o2s, indigo r10K, powerindigo, you name it) and a share of a 20-proc O2000; yet, ordering a new machine was like pulling out teeth, even while our local SGI salesperson is better than most. I still get the edu discount. I guess management should ORDER its salesforce to channel small orders to a VAR if they are not interested, rather than let them lapse. What is going on right now is absolute nonsense: how many people are going to buy big business outright rather than buy a few small machines first? Marcelo

To: Doug Skrypek who wrote (3505)	11/10/1997 6:49:00 PM
From: Ove Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

Sad but true. Some years years ago, while working for SGI in Neuchatel in Switzerland, I referred a French ISP which I was involved with to SGI in Paris. Unfortunately, SGI quite simply didn't seem interested at all in selling a few of their small boxes, while there was no problem at all getting someone from Sun to come out and propose a few small SPARCs and a good discount. I think the comment from my friends after having chased the SGI salesman (any SGI salesman) for a long time and then been mightily cheesed off was "SGI can go and play with themselves!". That said, knowing extremely well the company, their bright people (not including their sales force...) and great products, I have zero doubt that SGI will rebound, which is why I've just joined this thread, seriously considering buying a few hundred as soon as I believe I've seen the bottom... And no, I don't hold any SGI stock any more. Fortunately I couldn't afford to hold on to my ESPP stocks long term - if I had I undoubtedly would have done so, and would have been here slagging off the lousy performance of the stock instead ;-) ...