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  • Subject: Re: IBM dumb move #3,912,347
  • From: Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 15:29:58 -0400

>From: "Roger Pence" <rp@rogerpence.com>
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>Subject: Re: IBM dumb move #3,912,347
>Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:21:35 -0500
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>> Transition is always difficult... Eventually, everything will be available
>> in one place - Information Center and this will be a GOOD thing. I hope
>this
>> is done as quickly as possible though.
>
>But what is the point of going cold turkey with 14 books (many of which are
>very important manuals)? Why couldn't the books be available in both places?
>Why can't the Info Center have a good search facility? What can't _all_
>AS/400 manuals be indexed? Why can't IBM provide Adobe's index file facility
>the PDFs IBM distributes?
>
>Why can't the company telling us we all need to be doing e-business do it
>right themselves! It's about customers and their needs, not what's
>convenient for IBM!
>
OK  Lets  talk about those new Yellow stripped bumble-bee's CPW logic
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