Re: More VOIP/Digital Voice

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Roland Moore" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > What you fail to recognize is the ability of these large companies to
fuel
> > more innovation in regards to panels, expansion modules etc, I know
> > several
> > instances where either ITI/Caddx or Ademco couldn't put out equipment
back
> > in ye ole days that they can now.
> >
> > DSC would be dead without Tyco, you will likely never realize the
benefits
> > these big bad companies have done for you.
>
> Certainly you aren't serious! You have to be trying to pull me leg on
this.
> Let's see TYCO takes over and gets rid of the (more or less) forever
> warranty policy on panels. Then it refuses to fix panels. Then it shortens
> the warranty period on the panels. Yes that really helped me. Thanks TYCO.
> Boy was I ever stupid to ever think otherwise.
> Then  TYCO dumps product lines without warning (all of Communiqué for
> example) and then won't fix them. CP-01 comes out and now I can only sell
> three panels that DSC makes, that is the 1616, 1832 1864, which are all
> really the exact same base panel, just with different chipsets. MAXSYS is
> going to be back in a couple of years 'maybe' even though they've know
about
> CP-01 coming for several years already. Yes that "shows more innovation in
> regards to panels". Yes, thanks again TYCO! Oh I forgot to mention that of
> those few DSC panels I can use now, some of those have been recalled
> already, and I've yet to get the replacements promised, even after
crawling
> up the factory boys ass in a face to face twice already. They say they are
> having trouble with their new on line system and their own factory
accounts
> are locked up. Man you're right. 'I will likely never realize the benefits
> these big bad companies have done for me.' DSC would be dead without Tyco?
> Or perhaps TYCO's running of DSC will kill it. I guess, even as big as you
> say you are, you're not an AD, Kantech, CEM or Software House dealer. If
so
> you couldn't have missed the letters the TYCO accounting office sends out
> when they get low on cash. It is almost funny to read them. Most of them
say
> (more or less) we know you're not late but please send cash by XXX date. I
> like it when a big company has a cash flow problem and they, in turn, try
to
> make it mine too. Way to share! If I keep paying invoices early maybe
Dennis
> will send me an invite to the next Toga party when he gets out.

I'm well aware of all this and it has nothing to do with what I was talking
about which was that DSC was in financial trouble when Tyco bought them


> > Time will tell on that, large companies tend to get too stuck in their
> > ways
> > and falter like IBM, Sears, GM and Ford.
>
> Maybe it's time to add TYCO to that list too.
> Aren't you from Canada? I hear the weed is really powerful and almost
legal
> there. If it's not too cold you might want to open a window now and then,
> because through all that smoke, ironically enough, Bass' point of view is
> getting clearer all the time.

Why would you think I live in Canada?