Yahoo Message Board, Ion Geophysical, and Free Speech?
As most of you know I was the SR VP and GM of the Land Imaging Systems Division of Input Output Inc. (now Ion Geophysical Inc.) and I am still in contact with many employees and ex employees. The last few weeks I have been receiving calls and emails from a number of ex Ion Geo employees in regard to the rumor that BGP (a company in China that is the worlds largest Seismic contactor), saying that Ion is selling all or most of the LISD to BGP. I do not know if this is true or not. I think it would be a good move for Ion Geo. as long as they keep the FireFly wireless node business, as the future for land cable based systems is not that good.
I also received an email from China reporting to have text from a press release by BGP that is rather hard, thought not impossible to believe. So I checked out the Yahoo message board and sure enough there was a post regarding BGP buying LISD. I checked back today and guess what the post has been removed. Why by whom? If this post was removed by Ion Geo. then I think that is a bad move. The idea of message board is that they are uncensored and or course unreliable. People should be free to say what ever they want. If this rumor in unfounded then the company is free to make their own post and say so.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
One other interesting fact Ion Geo now has a Blog , however they do not allow comments or questions! They just do not get Web 2.0.
September 11th, 2009 at 11:35 am
More interesting data: Yesterday I had a call from a current Ion Geo employee who googled Ion BGP and found this post on the top of the second page. Today Google Ion BGP and this post is nowhere to be sean?
October 7th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Could you please provide a bit more explanation about why not sell / shut down Firefly project? Sercel recently conducted 40000 channels project in middle east and the progress of Firefly has been a little slow.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I would rather not comment on my old company’s business.
Clearly I believe that the market needs an economical, and simple one channel system for use with Geophones (98% of the market) and without costly radio links that require frequent battery replacements, that is why I started RDSeismic LLC