Re: WSJ article...

Don,

In a message dated 4/12/99 6:33:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dr2@cssas400.com 
writes:

> WSJ, 4/9, Pg B2, Column4, first full paragraph:
>  
>  "Another IBM soft spot has been its midrange servers, which account for
>  about 5% of revenue.  Its AS/400 and RS/6000 servers haven't competed well
>  against som eof it's more well-entrenched competitors, analyst say"
>  
>  1.  I thought the revenue numbers here higher

I thought so, too.  In fact, I thought that AS/400 sales surpassed mainframe 
sales last year.  Does this mean bad reporting or that total system sales now 
account for less than 10% of IBM's revenue?  Lies, damn lies, and statistics 
I say!  IBM's DASD, PC's, mainframes, and MarketFinity machines certainly 
haven't exceeded total AS/400 and RS/6000 sales.  Despite my gripe at COMMON, 
MarketFinity had another full page ad in "USA Today" last week with nothing 
for the AS/400.  Is MarketFinity a low cost machine or not??!!

>  2.  NO DUH!  If IBM keeps on INSISTING on marketing NT at all the trade
>  shows and IGNORING the AS/400 what more would you expect...

Forget the trade shows, what about those folks looking for an e-business 
solution that IBM refers to an NT rep?  ERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn't." -- Bern Williams
+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@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
+---