Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hey Stewart,

Can't argue with that logic. In this case, however, there's no 
product for the potential Yamaha buyer to fall back on. The 
DTXpress, as good as it is, is not the flagship product that I asked 
about, and in the e-drum niche, the unavailablitity of, say, the 
DTXtreme does not so much send someone to the DTXpress as to rivals 
like Roland. It's a small world, and we sorta know what everyone is 
doing, but the margins of ignorance, small as they are, matter to 
our miniscule population.

By the way, here is an excerpt from an article about the capacity of 
lawsuits to expose sensitive corporate secrets. It indirectly seems 
to speak to the point:

"In the information age, ideas are the bread and butter of business. 
The success of software companies, biotech firms and other 
technology-related businesses is dependent upon keeping new 
discoveries and business information secret. If, through exploratory 
litigation, a company can find out what its competitor is doing 
simply by coming up with frivolous charges, then intellectual 
property . . . and the growth of the economy are at serious risk.

"Revealing companies' proprietary information and intellectual 
property will harm consumers because it will discourage investment 
in research and development . . . . If companies can learn about 
competitors' best ideas . . . , businesses will be less likely to 
document or even fund projects in the R&D phase."



--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
<moosetication@y...> wrote:
> --- Jade wrote:
> > Man...you'd think it was a matter of national
> > security!!!  Wonder why they are being tight lipped?
> 
> Anyone who works for any sort of product company can answer that:
> 
> 1. So the competition don't find out. Actually, this is largely 
> bogus, as everyone knows pretty much what everyone else is doing 
in 
> any niche industry. This is just to hide the real reason, which 
is...
> 
> 2. To ensure people keep buying current models, since that's what 
> pays R&D's salary.
> 
> I have been "involved" (peripherally, not causally, I should 
> emphasise) with two companies that have had either large plants or 
> whole divisions close because of an incautious salesman letting 
> details of the new model slip.
> 
> Stewart