Re: Denise Buonaiuto Leave's AS/400 Job

Al exaggerates only slightly  to make a point. However, the AS/400 as a brand 
is losing clout - no doubt. However, the move may be to strengthen IBM as a 
brand, instead. To those who worship the AS/400 religion (I was one once), 
this is painful. However, the brand has run its course. It's time for IBM to 
consolidate and take on the competition. Do Win-tel, Sun, HP rely upon brands 
within their major category?

Just my very humble opinion.

Hank Heath

In a message dated 8/18/99 11:51:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, barsa2@ibm.net 
writes:

<< IBM has removed Denise Buonaiuto from her job in charge of AS/400 
marketing 
 and has put her in charge of the marketing effort of the new Shark DASD 
 storage product line.  (You will remember that Denise was one half of the 
 dynamic duo that stood in for Tom Jarosh at Spring COMMON's Soundoff.)
 
 Her replacement (Mark Angelino [sp??]) is currently on a three day trip to 
 Rochester to learn the AS/400.
 
 This is bad news for the AS/400, as Denise had been involved with the 
 product line (S3/X and then AS/400) for about 15 years.
 
 IBM, once again, goes out of it's way in an attempt to derail the AS/400 
 success story, in the never ending search for profit of the overall 
 corporation.  The day Lou leaves, sell your stock, and sell it short. >>
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