Re: Tektronix sold

Jim Stewart <jstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Jonathan Kirwan wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:56:32 GMT, qrk <SpamTrap@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:11:27 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
<JKolstad71HatesSpam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Robert Baer" <robertbaer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Nope; the price will go UP; how the hell do you think they fund
billion-dollar buy-outs anyway?
So you're saying it's naive to think they'll fund it by cost
reductions from reduced administrative overheads and new sales from
better products that can now be produced given their combined
resources?

Hmm... ok, I suppose that is naive...

Now they'll have more layers of management because of the larger
parent company. Probably means management will be farther removed
from reality. To solve this problem, more management will be added.
Plus, they'll start cutting work force or out sourcing to India if
money isn't flowing as they expect. Last to be cut are the managers
since technical staff is easily replaceable.

In all seriousness, I hope the parent company is a good one. Sure
hate to see Tek go down the tubes.

In my mind, that all already happened by 1982-83. I was working
there during that transition, and years before it, and was lucky
enough to be able to have a serious, personal discussion with one of
the key board members in 1983, Jim Castles, after what I then
imagined had been a short series of very bad, sweeping direction
changes from the Tek board. I had been surprised to hear him not
only agree with me about some of the reasoning, but to add a few
things to the picture, as well.

Yeah. Those of us that grew up, technically speaking,
with 454's and 465's knew the golden era was over with
the 22** series.

Heck,no! The 2465 series was the BEST scope TEK ever made.
Especially "technically".
the 22xx series was always intended as a low-cost budget scope,replacing
the T900 series(not the 465s).(and I'd still rather have a T922/935 over
many other scopes. I have a 2213 myself.)


But in all fairness Tek sold me a 2235 on time payments
back around '85 to start my midnight engineering business.
It's still on my bench with good calibration and bright
trace. So I shouldn't complain.


The killer was when TEK sold off it's Hybrid/ICO operation to Maxim.
That's when I knew the beancounters had begun the final slide.

Do you have a copy of "Winning With People,the First 40 Years at
Tektronix"?

I still have my copy. It just became an heirloom,a piece of History.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net
.

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