Re: O2OLAP Market Comments - October 2003

Howard Taylor [O2OLAP] wrote:

>Below are three comments relating to the latest version of O2OLAP's
>Microsoft Analysis Services (OLAP) add-in, O2OLAP for Excel. More comments
>can be found on our web site www.o2olap.com. These comments have been
>provided by independent users and analysts.
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>For further information, or to trial O2OLAP for Excel, please feel free to
>contact us.
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Since you have explicitly given permission to contact you I will.

What you did was to spam a usenet group. There is a usenet group that has been specifically
set aside for commercial messages, comp.databases.oracle.marketplace. But you apparently
are too busy selling your product to care about reading a FAQ or feel that somehow the fact
that you are out to make a dollar makes you exempt from the rules that apply to other people.
Such thinking is both thoughtless and rude. But in either case you have failed to do anything
other than to spit in the faces of the very people you wished to turn into customers. Do you
really believe we are going to go to your web site and be good to you after you have so
clearly demonstrated your contempt for us?

What we expect from you is an apology for spamming, a promise to not do it again, and a
repost of your message to the appropriate usenet group. Anything less and you can rest
assured you just alienated the very people you were trying to influence.

-- 
Daniel Morgan
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp
http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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