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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)
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Organization: SPRU, Univ of Sussex, UK
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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.....

 

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