Re: Tipton's COMMON opening speech

It's defeatist all right. Show me where at COMMON there was a glimmer of 
hope of things changing. IBM figureheads gave all the standard defensive 
responses.

The fundamental problem is the structure of IBM Rochester, and how it 
splits the AS/400 product development and marketing with Toronto and 
Raleigh and corporate. You might get some folks in those three or four 
facilities to accept your call for change, but they still have to operate 
within the labyrinth of IBM's structure. If you think a committee is a 
dozen bodies with no brain, what do you think dozens of IBM committees can 
accomplish? Until there's a figurehead in Rochester who can cut through the 
noise, leading an AS/400 division that can operate as if it's competing 
with Sun, Microsoft and HP, instead of with Netfinity and S/390, then 
nothing, NOTHING will change, IMHO.

We've all been complaining about this for YEARS. There's a definition of 
insanity that states that it's "doing the same thing over and over, and 
expecting different results." Just a thought...

  ... Chuck

At 08:01 AM 3/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
><Action is almost worthless in the AS/400 market>
>Kinda defeatist isn't it?  Or on the other hand I think I
>get your point.   Action is worthless but talking isn't huh?
>
>I guess from that perspective there's not much to do but
>write cynical articles about rumors?

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