RE: Poor IFS performance?

At 01:33 PM 02/28/2000 +0000, you wrote:

*BRAINDEAD.

Maybe my first answer was too in jest.  They perceive that they can make a lot of money in these market places, but other less bloated companies with lower overheads can simply do better.  They are jealous of Sun's performance in the UNIX marketplace, and they will never be a Dell of a COMPAQ.

Al

Does the AS/400 make more money for IBM than Netfinity and RS/6000? If so, why are they not ramming the AS/400 down the throats of everybody in Computerland, its a truly great system, and its still getting better every year. Why are they trying to kill it. Is the AS/400 still succeeding in spite of IBM's best efforts?

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 12:08 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Poor IFS performance?

At 11:22 PM 2/27/00 -0800, you wrote:

Patrick,

I believe that IBM has a server specifically tuned for Notes.

Just like they have interactive vs batch performance tuned models.

I agree that they are claiming this.  As they will not explain how this is done, this strikes me as closed and proprietary, or else they are just lying.  (I understand that  they get pissed when I talk about them lying, but do you remember how V3R1 was "pure guava"? 

RANTMODE(*ON)
My some Albert III still wears the tee-shirt as a sleep shirt.  So I am constantly reminder of that release that could most politely be referred to as "hanus".
RANTMODE(*OFF)

I do not suspect that this performance enhancement (or just pure crock) will not have any effect on the disk performance/space issues in the IFS.  I am actively open to criticism on this point.  (If IBM would like to explain how they do this, I will be happy to retract my, closed/proprietary/crock/or just plain bullshit comments, but my sense is that some fathead is too stupid to do this.)

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It's incredible how IBM works hard to retain fatheads, and then incents smart people like Jim Sloan, Wayne Evans, Janet Krueger and David Money to leave.  Keep up the good work IBM, this is why I own your competitor's stock.  If you do own IBM stock, when Lou quits, sell your stock, and sell it short - as there will be nothing left of what used to be a wonderful corporation!  (I know Lou doesn't like when I say this, but he also doesn't understand the mathematical expression that 400>390.  I really hope that before he quits that he sells the AS/400 Division, because then I will invest heavily, promote the product properly, and kick the ass out of the remainder of all of the computer industry including whatever corporation the then dead IBM will become!  [I have formally invited him to visit my office twice, and both times he very promptly and properly declined my invitation.  Both our offices and homes are less than 10 miles away from each other.]  This is one of the ways that IBM tries to kill the AS/400 constantly.  After all, why would they want to promote a product that makes a huge profit, when they promote Netfinity and RS/6000 which only lose over a billion dollars a year?)
RANTMODE(*OFF)

Al

PS:  As this topic has mostly been highly technical in nature, I have been bcc:ing two IBMers who usually do not monitor this list. 


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