Thread regarding Xerox Corp. layoffs

Reliability and Support. If you can't provide, well . . . .

6kuj: if I follow, you are spot on. Suggest using actual English language to give your comments more credibility.

Sailorman has it solid n her group has zero to do wit product makin her public statements more bizarre

She wasn’t a CISO in the govt, but she likes to make it seem like she was. She was procurement and thus should know better than to trade speaking engagements (social media ego growth) for vendor endorsements for purchasing product. Borderline unethical. Plus she only gets interviewed by those working for a group she is on advisory board for. I hate to think this is how it works and there are no experts. She isn’t helping the xerox image at all.

https://www.xerox.com/en-us/about/executive-leadership/corporate-speakers

Without naming names....

Who is the CISO?

Every time she wants security software; she insists on having whatever she was using when she worked for the federal government, however long ago that was. Meanwhile, the rest of the company has been mandated to reduce the number of suppliers we deal with. In addition every purchase goes thru an additional approval process by senior finance mgmt. She feels as CISO that if she has approved the purchase no one else should need to review, validate or question it.

“... latest Apps and security...”: you really have gulped the koolaid. What security other than app control on a fraction of the fleet? Direct IP manipulation, sketchy vendor services, amazingly incompetent CISO embarrassing the brand at every turn, connectkey vulnerabilities and design flaws, etc. what is second to none is our ability to use something substandard as a market differentiator.

Some forms of printing is going away but not all. Walk down the isle in the supermarket. Every soup can, soda bottle, spaghetti sauce jar, milk container, etc has a printed label on it. Every cereal box is printed cardboard. Not to mention the high value color prints used in marketing and advertising. Xerox did not do a good job in migrating to the high volume, high value areas of printing. Instead we spent absurd amounts of money trying to migrate to services. Money that could have been much better spent in technology investments that would have enabled us to participate in these other areas of printing.

Some forms of printing is going away but not all. Walk down the isle in the supermarket. Every soup can, soda bottle, spaghetti sauce jar, milk container, etc has a printed label on it. Every cereal box is printed cardboard. Not to mention the high value color prints used in marketing and advertising. Xerox did not do a good job in migrating to the high volume, high value areas of printing. Instead we spent absurd amounts of money trying to migrate to services. Money that could have been much better spent in technology investments that would have enabled us to participate in these other areas of printing.

Yes, the market has declined as bit, but there is still a hugh market ... you should know that.

As for the PC, GUI, mouse ... etc ... true, but that was 50 years ago, time to let that go. You did not have any decision making in those decisions. Time to let it go and not worry about the past.

Replying to the "People are printing less, but we are still the best?"

You are best in supporting a market that is in decline? That does not seem like a viable business model for the long term.

Read Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age or Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer. Xerox had the best engineers and minds working at PARC and throughout the company and squandered it by not capitalizing on them.

eInk displays - Xerox had it in the late 70s, PCs - Xerox had a personal computer before all other companies even thought about it, Graphical OS - Xerox showed it to Microsoft and MS ran with it, mouse, internet, etc.

If it doesn't print, don't sell it seems to be their motto for missing opportunities.

What are those steam trains you are talking about? We have the best of breed in InkJet, Production color and production Black and white. Our Office offerings have the latest Apps and security .. .second to none in the industry. All this talk about how Xerox missed the boat ... you don't seem to know what you are talking about. Our Production software is also best of breed ... Partner with Fiery, XMPie, Freeflow Core ... etc. Yes, people are printing less, but we are still the best!