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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:24:00 EDT
From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Emplant Experience

Date sent: 23-NOV-1992

>LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET (The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair.) writes:
>
>>This sounds exactly like the dealings I have had with UU in the past.  The
>>release a product before it is finished to generate revenues, and use that
>>money to fix it.  In the mean time the first time purchasers suffer; until
>they
>>fix all the bugs.  That's why when you see a new product from UU, IMHO, avoid
>>it until it has been out quite a while.  They are friendly, and do make good
>>products in the end, but initially I found the quality of new products for
>them
>>to be poor.  I though by now they would have stopped this practice.......
>>Well anyways... Hope this makes people consider waiting of buying the Emplant
>>until this major revision is accomplished.......
>
>
>>P.S. In the end I would imagine that Emplant will be a phenominal product.
>>Allowing full Macintrash compatibility and IBM 486 compatibility, but for now
>>well........
>
>I am not trying to defend for Jim Drew (president of UU).  However, aren't
>your suggestions a little contradictory?
>
>(This is not meant to be a flame... I am just wondering...)
>
>according to your experience, UU uses and _needs_ the money from their
>customers to release a semi-working product, then improve it as they have
>more money.  Yet, you advice people to wait until UU improves EMPLANT
>significantly before placing an order?
>
>My question is: if everyone decides to wait for a completed and bug-free
>EMPLANT, where does Jim Drew of UU find money to develop the board?
>
>Again, Don't get me wrong.  I am not defending for Jim Drew.  It is your
>decision whether you want to trust UU and Jim Drew.  I am just a little
>baffled by your suggestion.  Again, no offense.
>
>Yours Sincerely,
>Kelvin
>e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu

Hi Kelvin,
  :) No problem I see what you are saying, but no it is not contradictory.  I
don't want to have to pay for the R&D of UU product line. Let them finish the
product and then release it.  If I wanted to fund R&D of UU I would buy stock
from them, but I don't.  And a lot of people don't know that this seems to be
the policy of UU.  Your customer's should not have to pay for you to build your
products correctly.  That is to say you should not sell unfinished products to
get money to finish R&D on them.  Or if you do, the device should at least work
relatively well as advertised.  And you should tell people that all it does is
X while in the future it will do X,Y, and Z.  In the end I was happy with UU,
but I think it is unfair for them to expect ppl to pay for research and bug
fixes in the way they do. :>  No offense taken. :)

-Nyle

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