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Jon makes a good point. I will admit that it seems that media coverage has improved. Media in the sense of trade publications and misc. professional magazines. It has been refreshing to see some coverage within magazines like Manufacturing Solutions, Automatic ID News, Managing Automation, and Material Handling. I'm still disappointed in the lack of coverage by magazines such as ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, Datamation and the likes. My other concern is to see that this still continues and improves. We have a project for Warehouse Management (hence my letter last week). We have a VP of IT that is convinced that 'NT is the future' and specifically went looking for an NT based warehouse solution.......when there are literally hundreds of AS/400 solutions available....Short of paying my neighbor Billy Ray to use his big Chevy Truck to eliminate this kind of thinking I don't know what else to do. One of the magazines he reads regularly is ComputerWorld.... We have been able to convince opening the doors to AS/400 based vendors and I hope we are not too much behind in this game. Anyway, Jon does make a good point and I still agree with Al. It has improved but I think it needs to continue to grow. One thing I'm sure of is not all of us will be completely satisfied with what IBM does or agree amongst ourselves how it should be done (ok it's two things). Thought you folks might be interested in this given the content of this thread. One point that Jarosh made at Soundoff was that advertising is only part of the game (and not a big part at that if the other factors are not in play). Media coverage is far more important, and he demonstrated at Soundoff that the level of coverage has increased fourfold in recent months. Since I just received a soft-copy of some of those articles, I thought I'd pass them along. This is the mind share stuff that really matters. +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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