[153] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Sales And PR: The (Dangers of) SunFlash Syndrome
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don Morris)
Tue Nov 13 11:54:37 1990
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 09:41:43 MST
From: morris@windom.UCAR.EDU (Don Morris)
To: com-priv@psi.com, ddern@world.std.com
How about asking what the consumer really wants? Now a shop
that is mainly using Suns might want to get all the latest
product releases from Sun or a DEC shop from DEC. But it is not
necessary to have the info flooded by e-mail all over the net
including to people who may not be interested at that particular
point in time.
For example, in six months I may need a certain type of equipment,
say some terminal servers or an FDDI-to-ethernet bridge. If the
product info comes across my e-mail now I will ignore it because
I am simply too busy to read it, much less remember it. I have no
need for it at this time and don't even know that I will need it
later. Now if there were a nice database somewhere on which I could
query "terminal servers" and "FDDI-to-ethernet bridge" and I get
all the product info from the contributing vendors, I would be
happy. As it is now I have to go through magazines and newspapers
searching for the info.
On the other hand, the Sun shops could query by vendor for, say,
all product announcements since a given date (so as not to get
flooded with info they already have).
Presumably vendors would pay a subscription fee for this database.
--Don--
