[TenTec] Regarding conversations with TT engineer(s)

[RaySoifer at cs.com]

Not to speak of other potential problems.  TT is a privately held company, so it would not be affected, but if a company has publicly traded securities (stock or bonds), information about potential new product releases could affect the prices of those securities and must therefore be tightly controlled by the company's investor relations function.  To do otherwise could risk possible litigation as well as SEC problems.

I spent most of my career in the securities business, so I lived with such issues all the time.

73 Ray W2RS






"Martin Ewing" <martin.s.ewing at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:21 PM, lee berman <w1idz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> In my 34-year career I've been an engineer and engineering manager at both
>> large and small companies.
>>
>> I applaud the open -door policy that TenTec has tried to maintain for hams,
>> but think it's time to change the policy.
>>
>> Jack, if you're listening, now that there's a web page that we can look to
>> for information, and Scott has been made de-facto "point man" for info on
>> new releases, changes, modifications, etc.  Tell the engineers to stop
>> answering customer questions of that nature, and defer them to Scott or
>> someone else designated as PIO.
>> ...
>>
>
>There is wisdom here.  On the other hand, the "open" culture is not
>something to jettison lightly.  It's a big competitive advantage compared
>with the off-shore vendors, especially for maintenance.  People (at TT and
>everywhere) should be careful about giving out information that is not
>"official" and might be wrong.  For example, it's doing no one any favors to
>say that a certain firmware release is coming real soon now, when things
>could be delayed for any of a number of good reasons.
>
>I would suggest that TT should *date* the entries on their product status
>page, so we can all tell how actively that information is being maintained.
>
>73, Martin
>
>-- 
>Martin Ewing, AA6E
>Branford, CT
>_______________________________________________
>TenTec mailing list
>TenTec at contesting.com
>http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>