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Geoff Schultz
 
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Wayne.B wrote in
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On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:08:44 GMT, Geoff Schultz
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So if they wouldn't have mispelled "performace" and "lenght" and "stip"
(strip) would you have considered their product. No one ever said that
engineers could spell


I resemble that remark but I can proof read and spell check :-)

and they probably don't have the resources to hire an
expensive marketing firm.


OK, and what does that say about their long term staying power and
commitment in a competetive marketplace?


If you look at the rest of their web site you'd have seen that they have a
lot of other products and appear to have been around for quite a while.
It's not a very professional web site and its aimed at hams. I do agree
that running a spell checker is an easy thing to do. I think that you're
cutting yourself short if you base your purchasing criteria on web site
design and spelling.

I worked for Digital Equipment Corp of 14 years and I can remember
marketing turning out beautiful looking brochures with technical mistakes.
Back then I would I sworn to DEC's staying power, but now 20+ years later
we had DEC-Compaq-HP...

-- Geoff