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Gold/Mining/Energy : MADISON SYSTEMS(MADI) Multi Million Dollar Contract -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Siber who wrote (4324)	4/1/1999 11:45:00 AM
From: DuGen	Respond to of 5832

Right!!! What Holding-lene said..... and double! (eom) DuGen

To: Siber who wrote (4324)	4/1/1999 12:22:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5832

is there really a product....a product that works. A few weeks ago I posted a request for information if anybody knew of any knowledgable independent source which had checked the Centurion and verified that it worked. Nobody responded. I'll ask again. The MADI "investor packet" didn't include a single quote from any independent source about the Centurion. Why hasn't this been reviewed by PC Mag, PC World, PC Week, Byte, etc., etc., to say nothing of the networking specialty magazines. If it is really a good solution to a serious problem, I would have expected them to have picked it up by now. I certainly HOPE that the Centurion marketing plan would have included sending out samples to all the media to test and write about. Whenever our company put a new board out (we were board designers and manufacturers) we made sure that the first 20 fully working boards went out to the right people at the relevant publications (which ones dependend on which board it was), and we followed up with phone support and help for them to understand the product and what it did. Then as soon as their reports came out we cherrypicked the best quotes <g> and those went straight into our sales literature. And we didn't even have a marketing consultant helping us. All this makes me wonder -- is the Centurion really a great solution to a serious problem, or is it basically a nonevent, something that IS departments will buy one of, evaluate it, and say nah, we don't need these? DON'T FLAME -- I'm NOT saying it's useless or doesn't work. It may be the greatest thing since the microchip. I'm ASKING. But if it were really a breakthrough product, and were going to solve serious network problems, don't you think SOME independent reviewer or source would have said so by now? And if the had, don't you think Madison would be trumpeting that in their publicity? It makes me ask questions. Anybody have any answers?