Re: Wave Tour 98'

Scott, 

My impressions were the same as yours.  More high level marketing than
anything you could really learn from.  

The hot buttons they were pushing were;

Get on the web or die.  (Marketing aps.  Ecommerce aps such as supply
chain).
You need high availablity.  AS/400 is the most reliable web server.
Hackers are scary people. AS/400 is the most secure web server.
AS/400 is a hi-tech state-of-the-art web server.

To anyone considering going - send your MS blinded execs.

Kathleen Kostuck
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> From: Sclind2@aol.com
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Wave Tour 98'
> Date: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 11:21 AM
> 
> In a message dated 10/12/98 5:58:30 PM Central Daylight Time,
eric@norcov.com
> writes:
> 
> << Has anyone attended the Wave Tour 98'?  Any thoughts? >>
> 
> I went to the one a couple weeks ago and was disappointed.  The Killer
Apps
> speaker wasn't bad, but wasn't overly interesting.  The guy from IBM who
spoke
> on what the AS/400 could do was great, but for the most part I think he
was
> preaching to the choir.
> 
> I had no idea what to expect since there was no agenda on the web site. 
I
> registered thru their web site a few days in advance, but when I got
there
> they had no record of me registering.  (Probably had an NT server
handling
> that).
> 
> There was a small vendor expo, but nothing exciting.
> 
> If you were top management who knew nothing of the AS/400, this gave you
an
> good understanding of its capabilities.  But for me, it offered almost
nothing
> I didn't already know.
> 
> Scott Lindstrom
> Zenith Electronics 
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