Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cvaxa!unx1!qsfa1 From: qsfa1@unx1.UUCP (Graham Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Atari management style Message-ID: <239@unx1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 08:50:49 EDT Article-I.D.: unx1.239 Posted: Fri Jul 10 08:50:49 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jul-87 06:34:58 EDT References: <8706241904.AA03975@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <771@atari.UUCP> Reply-To: qsfa1@unx1.UUCP (Graham Thomas) Distribution: world Organization: SPRU, Univ of Sussex, UK Lines: 29 Keywords: Tramiels, competence In article <771@atari.UUCP> dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer) writes: > I don't give a damn about saving >Atari's face -- but I *do* care about the quality of the software on >the ST. Again, it is stalled somewhere in management, so get out your >book of stamps and start writing.... Thanks for some plain speaking, Landon. Does anyone else share my feelings that Atari's top management don't deserve the good work that's being done by some of their employees? Don't the bosses worry at all when people like Simon Poole, people who have done a lot to enhance Atari products, become so critical? Admittedly, Atari was in bad shape when the Tramiels took it over, but in getting the company back on its feet they seem to be neglecting product development. Simon's quite right when he compares the promises with the reality and finds that nothing much has really happened over the past year or so. There comes a time when overblown macho posturings of the "Business is War" ilk just aren't good enough. I can't think of any good commercial or other reason why the software Landon mentioned shouldn't be released. Are the Tramiels competent enough to run Atari, or are they too concerned about behaving like the characters in that other Dynasty, the one on TV? Their public pronouncements have more than a hint of the 'quality' of the TV dialogue, though they really need someone with the class of Joan Collins to get the mixture right..... -- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK JANET: qsfa1@uk.ac.sussex.unx1 EARN/BITNET: qsfa1@unx1.sussex.ac.uk UUCP: ..mcvax!ukc!cvaxa!unx1!qsfa1 Phone: +44 273 686758