Talk:Solectron/Archives/2011

Corporate Summary similarity
This entry is far too similar with the corporate summary. lots of issues | leave me a message 10:56, 25 May 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree - I've replaced the article with a short description of the company to start us off. Sfisher 06:14, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

History Repeats
The hostile takeover of Solectron is very similar to what happened to Maxtor Corporation (the disk drive maker). Mike Cannon was CEO of Maxtor for a while, then left for Solectron. Paul Tufano was "interim CEO" for a while. Soon after that Maxtor was bought out by Seagate.

I was surprised to know this, seems like Cannon and Tufano play executive games for personal profit. This issue might balance the corporate bias currently the article. Need to find a good reference on Maxtor history that can summarize this little tidbit. IbnFadlan 22:08, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

It appears that this article is being written by an employee...
I have whoised some of the recent IP edits on this article, and they appear to be coming from company-owned IPs. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 02:00, 9 November 2006 (UTC)


 * This is a blatant corporate commercial. Why is it in Wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Josephsons (talk • contribs) 20:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Maybe —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pcubbage (talk • contribs) 23:23, 20 May 2007 (UTC)


 * It's history now. &mdash;QuicksilverT @ 21:48, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

NPOV dispute
This entire article has been written in marketing. It goes on and on while saying almost nothing of use to an encyclopedia. The majority of it is nothing more than a promotion for the company. As said above, it appears as though many of the edits to this article have been made by people within the company. Half the article is taken up by awards the company claims to have won, and lists of their services. Wikipedia is not here to let companies advertise. This article needs to be heavily rewritten to meet Wikipedia standards. I would go so far as to suggest writing a basic placeholder entry until a proper rewrite can occure, to remove this disaster from sight. Jax184 13:15, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Second that, even though I probably have a conflict of interest here (see user profile), the endless list of customer awards in this article doesn't belong on Wikipedia.TanKaram (talk) 21:48, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Look at the site
The first part is directly from the company history page http://www.solectron.com/about/history.htm The two last awards seem legitimate. The others are from customers and/or vendors. Maybe they give one another awards. There are phony award systems around e.g. every "award winning news show" talking head pays to attend a conference where they, and everyone else get the same award, pictures et al.

That being said, the first problem is what are the criteria? A good way to narrow that is to point to examples that fit the bill. Take a look at the IBM and Microsoft sites. They are written in a more neutral sounding way but they do list a lot of products and services. Are they good models? Maybe they are the exception to all rules. At the other end is the Velocity Micro page. Gateway is kind of in between but severely lacks sources. --Pcubbage 06:23, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:SLR u.jpg
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article needs restructuring
article needs to be formatted into wikipedia sub headings.

it is in the process of being acquired by Flextronics. there should be reference in there to it.

needed more referencing --Visik 09:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

formatted article with wiki standards.

restructured the paragraphs. previously the first paragraph was so convoluted and read like an promotion material. cut it down to size and neutralise the article further. --Visik 10:34, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

SVG of logo?
The article could use a svg version of Solectron's logo. Anyone know where this might be found? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Needs information about Solectron being one of biggest victims of dotcom bust
A big part of Solectron's history was its inability to recover after the dotcom bust. This article really needs information related to that.Pekinese96 (talk) 00:04, 5 September 2009 (UTC)