Subject: Re: Wang - 4
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 21:46:26 -0500
On 11 Jan 98 at 22:06, xxxx wrote:
> I am not going to write another paper!!!!
Hehehe!
> At least I can say that I have a lot more knowledge about
> this Wang company that I intended to get doing this case.
Oh dear! TMI (Too Much Information)!
> As far as the case is concerned, I was to read it and decide
> which option out of the three offered would I chose if I were
> Tucci.
OK, that sounds like you don't have make your choice square with the facts, with the lurking possibility that the professor is not too up on the actual facts and thinks that one of those three is what happened. In a very crude sense, and from a distance, one might say that Wang in fact used option #3. They *did* try to be in the software business, and they *did* actively continue to support their existing VS hardware business, even to the extent of engineering new hardware (although the case could be made that that, too, was more to avoid liability to large customers than anything else).
> I took it upon myself to find out what the company had done hoping
> that I would make writing out the case a whole lot easier.
> Not!!!!!!
I don't quite follow how that made your task more *difficult*!
> What it has done is make me know to stay away from Wang.
Ha!
> Because Wang did not follow any of the options of the case very
> closely, I can not pattern my response after what the comapny did.
But it's not clear to me that your assignment was to divine what the company actually did. If I had been Tucci I'm not sure I would have done what he did, but then I'm not sure all the decisions were his to make, and I *am* sure that I'm not in possession of all the data that would enable me to make definitive statements after the fact about what I would or wouldn't have done in his place -- I wasn't there, and neither was your professor (at least I *presume* this to be the case!).
> I want to do this because I doubt if any of my classmates have
> looked up the info for the case.
You would know that likelihood better than I, but I suspect you're right.
> A well put together paper based on fact but written like I cam up
> with it all by myself would have me sitting pretty with the
> professor.
Unless, of course, the professor has some agenda you haven't detected, and doesn't like what you came up with or doesn't like being at odds with the real world (professors are prone to that last).
> All day and 13 pages later, I can not make Wang's actions fit the
> challenges that face me.
As I said, it's not clear to me that that was your assignment. And if the professor's options do not take into consideration the detail I've gone into (or take into consideration *more* detail than I'm aware of, or more accurate information than I have), then option #3 may be what loosely fits the facts most closely. That's not to say, of course, that it was necessarily the best option, only that it seems to have worked. Maybe another option would have worked even better.
> Oh well, there is still tommorrow,
Yes, Scarlett!
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Regards,
Thomas Junker