#product

Spoke to a customer today who has had a support ticket opened for months now... support and our product development have basically told him that they don't have the time to address his issue. Meanwhile the issue is a known problem which is effecting multiple customers. Cant share much more but all I can say is how do you expect to market and sale a product if we cant even support it ourselves?

I'm curious how do folks feel about SAS' Agentic AI solution (Retrieval Agent Manager) that was GA'd last month? Is anyone seeing much customer interest or demand to date?

https://www.sas.com/en_us/news/press-releases/2025/september/retrieval-agent-manager.html?utm_source=advocacy&utm_medium=social-sprinklr&utm_content=18284842199&utm_term=18284842199

Remember, slackers and under-performers have been PIP’d and let go. If you are reading this, then you know who you are.

CE1 will succeed and be a fantastic product.

ain't nobody buying AI podz, AI Canvas, AI defence, AI Webex

ai canvas is a year too late and full of nasty (soul crushing) security flaws and bugs
ai podz are crazy expensive for a rack server + gpu
ai defence is yet another promising acquisition crushed under the fatty folds of cisco bureaucracy

and who the heck uses webex?

Trying to play in AI and Quantum Computing with no credidibility.

Proficio sounds like the old ricoh line aka Aficio... These must be relabeled ricoh production boxes? Launch date March 2026...Love the optimism.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251022000698/en/Xerox-Introduces-Two-New-Digital-Presses-to-Production-Ecosystem-at-PRINTING-United

Another reorganization — new names, the same long-entrenched inept leadership.

No real changes. No products. Quality keeps sliding while the company waits for someone — anyone — to make sense of AI, since the so-called AI teams clearly can’t.

Directionless “AI strategy” built on vaporware, riddled with defects, and outsourced to contractors following Chinese-grade security practices — meaning none at all.

Make sure you read this article.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/40-reasons-no-one-should-buy-a-ford-in-2025/ss-BB1r4Q2g?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=68f4e59f63e74e83b49953155ce56a61&ei=31#image=41

How is Hypershied and Canvas seeing these days?

Best product ever made by Intel and will win market from AMD, and INTC will be up to sky! Let's just wait and see.

Intel (INTC.O), opens new tab on Thursday unveiled key details of its upcoming Panther Lake laptop processor, the first chip built on its next-generation 18A production process, aiming to convince investors its costly turnaround plan can restore its manufacturing edge. https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-outlines-details-first-pc-chip-made-its-new-manufacturing-tech-2025-10-09/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

JC gets millions

https://www.tipranks.com/news/company-announcements/dell-awards-132-4m-stock-options-to-coo-clarke

Now can we stop with all the useless reorgs and focus on products instead?

18A - Current 35%, visible path to plan of record 60-65% by end of Q4'25. No large problems gating path to POR.

Going above 65% is unknown

14A is a derivative of 18A and has a better curve (yielding better than 18A at the same time in the development process from start)

At POR yields, good enough to break even for small die size products. Large products like DC CPU or GPU will require yields to be >85% to be feasible, preferably above 95%. However that probably will take a few more quarters to achieve.

Heard a lot of this was due to poor product execution?!? TI did not deliver on a quality product to a customer and had to sell off what they could and make major cost adjustments internally?!?! Anyone can confirm or deny this. Or is this the same BS spiel given every single RIF?!?!?!

Will this be executed flawlessly? Everything is being market tested. Not nearly enough capable engineers, our best are leaving or retiring soon. What is our strategy? Break the previous recall record? Who will be held accountable?

Obviously there will be a much larger market after bd merger,thence stockpiling.those not contributing through overtime should be first to go

leaders are asking to suspend all products until further notice.

It was supposed to be the big Cohesity ki-ler. Instead, they let DD rot on the vine

in 2019, which is 6 years ago, Ford introduced the new redesign models Explorer, Escape, F150, Mustang, and Transit. The only model that is still selling above 100,000 units per year is the F150. If you look at these vehicles after 6 years, they are all still look the same.

This is the main reason why Ford vehicles sales are down. Why would anyone want to buy a new vehicle that looks like the ones from 6 years ago.

Ford will ax the Escape and Transit, the Mustang is iconic so Ford will hold on to it even though Ford loses money making the Mustang.

I think Ford will discontinue the F150 Lightning after 2026. They have not done anything to make this EV pickup truck better since it was introduced in May 2021. No wonder Ford can't sell it and no one want to buy it.

The end of the road for Ford F150 Lightning.

We fumbled hard when JD left. Instead of swinging big, we smashed the reset button. Now we’ve got an old CEO, an old CMO, a CFO with zero imagination, a supply chain guy who can’t count, and a CTO who still thinks she’s running ops at Amazon—bless her heart. And these are the people Nike thinks are gonna connect with the next generation of athletes? Marketing is trash. Product is trash. No help in sight.

What are the actual benefits of the small business index provided by Fiserv?

Oh boy. I'm sorry but this company's internal AI tools are cr-p and far behind other companies. I cringe that some tools for clients have been rolled out.

I am so sick of the AI push here to use su-ky internal tools. Pushing us to use AI is coming up in every team meeting/townhall. Nothing against AI at all. What I have a problem with is cr-ppy AI.

C!t!'s tools su-k and are very basic. My child builds better apps that the internal one. I hope clients complain and the media has fun! Lol
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/citigroup-inc-c-unveils-ai-044603226.html

Running, Basketball, Global Football, NSW, Energy, Core, Kids... what else?

I saw someone say the CX group that got moved under Chris is untouched so far, but can anyone still at Oracle comment about the Right Now product folks? Wondering if they were protected or not.

Expecting announcements soon on divestiture, Lorenzo keeps showing slides on it but no context to which product lines.
Thoughts?

Is it true BlueXP is being ki-led? Does that mean the team will be laid off?

Opps... the FDA is not happy when splatter and disinfection of touch screens cause setting changes.

Even when the rate of occurrence is acceptable in the original design specs

Go Figure

You know what's funny? When items in a grocery store get recalled, people talk about it, they don't buy it again, avoid the brand like the plague. When Ford issues a recall notice, what the fu-k do people think?

Wonder if it is actually heading anywhere? Or all talks and …

You have a very short window sir to do the right thing until the new CEO comes and sees right through your wall of snake oil and misdirection. Your presentation onstage at the internal kickoff was an hour of wasted time I will never get back. You showed Google AI and Notebook LM and pretended it was a technology forward development. It was not sir. We all saw through your charade.

If you want OpenText to succeed, you need to:

• perform deep product consolidation. Go from 1000 products down to 150. We need one product for each segment we want to play in. Why do we have content server, documentum and core content? Why do we have multiple faxing solutions in BN?
• The products you choose to keep need to be completely rewritten from the ground up using cutting edge architecture and memory safe development languages. Putting a legacy product inside a container doesn’t make it containerized. We need a real automated orchestration layer than can handle availability, capacity in real time by itself. Patching should be done in the middle of the day by scaling and moving without impacting customers.
• Security and privacy need to be designed into all of the products from day 1. As a European developer, I cringe every time someone tells me we will comply with GDPR. Our products are not designed for security and privacy by default. As governments become more demanding, we will be left in the cold. The time is NOW!
• Fire 50% of your direct reports. Most of your VPs and directors are incompetent and would be unable to find a job anywhere else. Most have been here too long and don’t know what modern software architecture looks like.
• Understand that AI is not a product and will quickly become a feature. Slapping AI on something (like Ollie AI) doesn’t make it modern or desirable. Where are your real product managers thinking about building world class functionality? Aviator is nothing more than a Google AI wrapped in OpenText clothes. It is NOT innovation. It is not unique and customers aren’t buying it.

This is from the main thread:

• "The rest of product is functionally useless, just another layer of management hot air that enables the single worse problem Kroger always had - not listening to its technical people." (Anonymous, Post ID: @qg+1k3eddae2)
• "Now those product folk speak on our behalf but don't know anything technical. It's a joke." (Anonymous, Post ID: @q0+1k3eddae2)
• "We have a 1 to 1 ratio of admin people and the people who actually do the work." (Anonymous, Post ID: @pv+1k3eddae2)
• "Product in other orgs has made sense, not at Kroger. it starts with the leaders…" (Anonymous, Post ID: @px+1k3eddae2)

I recently found out they'll be doing more layoffs at KTD and probably GO soon. I know for sure CIS and Product will get hit hard. I hope you get your severance!

https://www.at.ford.com/us/en/home/news-media/news/2025/8/bronco-roadster-silver-lake-sand-dunes.html

These Broncos should be ready for production. Only if Ford can build it reliably. I am not sure about the quality, but it's cool looking.

Welp, there goes the neighborhood!
Some marketing and product but not sure who else

What sellable products has F5 developed internally/organically in the last 10 years?