From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from gate.mvhi.com ([194.205.184.34] helo=server.axiom.internal) by imladris.mvhi.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 111dz7-0005Wv-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:46:41 +0100 To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: mtd@infradead.org Reply-To: mtd@infradead.org Subject: Re: Disk-On-Chip progress. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 23:46:40 +0100 From: David Woodhouse Message-Id: Sender: owner-mtd@imladris.demon.co.uk List-ID: jgg@deltatee.com said: > I was chatting with some of our folks here, apparently some time ago > we tried quite hard to get specs for their stuff, we were willing to > sign NDA's, etc, inorder to make it work in QNX. Apparently we got > noplace with them :< I found the same - I spent about three months waiting for a response from their 'Director of Marketing and Sales Europe.' Then I was fed to a technical person, who listed to what I wanted, and decided I had to talk to someone higher up... I suspect that I was just caught up in red tape the whole time, and that I didn't actually get attention from anyone who was able to make real decisions until yesterday, when the news of my web site filtered back up through the ranks to their President. It was quite amusing watching the hits from lots of different machines within their domain and wondering who they were from. They don't have reverse DNS set up, so I could only guess (tech.m-sys.com, marketing.m-sys.com, admin.m-sys.com, legal.m-sys.com...) It's unfortunate that such tactics were the only way to open discussions, but now we're talking, and they seem fairly genuinely willing to work with us to find a solution to the problem. It seems as if we'll be able to reach an agreement fairly soon. I certainly hope so. As I said, watch this space. ---- ---- ---- David Woodhouse David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com Office: (+44) 1223 810302 Project Leader, Process Information Systems Mobile: (+44) 976 658355 Axiom (Cambridge) Ltd., Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridge, CB5 0NA, UK. finger dwmw2@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk for PGP key. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@imladris.demon.co.uk