Re: IBM - Get with it.

This is the province of the Business Partners.  Aren't these guys looking 
for new business?  Why aren't they putting up their own websites with 
powerful selling messages?  Isn't about time that people accepted the idea 
that IBM's job does not include doing the business partner's work? 

I mean, I haven't seen an Ad in my Sunday newspaper from Ford, Toyota, 
Honda, or General Motors in a very long time.  The dealers do it; after 
all they are the ones making the sales.

If the AS/400 is such a wonderful web machine, then why don't the AS/400 
Business Partners have knock-out demo sites?  Why don't Business Partners 
run ads telling their target customer group to "try & buy" on the web 
site?

For that matter, why hasn't one of these business partners made an obscene 
monetary offer to David to bring the Midrange.com site under their wing, 
with him managing it and becoming the de-facto midrange web alpha dog?

Instead I see wringing of hands and renting of garments.  Lets ask the 
Business Partners to get with it and do their job.

_______________________
Booth Martin
Booth@MartinVT.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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"Jim Franz" <franz400@triad.rr.com>
Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
07/30/2000 06:05 PM
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> They want a place to put references to good articles(URLs) and
Testimonials
> so that when THEY are on an Internet forum, or taking to someone or
emailing someone,
> THEY can reference that site for a treasure trove of good info to use.

What would help also is to have as part of that AS/400 reference area, 
urls
to working
AS/400 based web sites. The Ignite400 ShowCase list of urls on their site
seems very small.
I've had several customers want to see AS/400 based web sites (and not 
just
store front, but
other kinds as well). Even many 400 programmers I know are blown away by
something
like www.songfile.com . Up to now, I get my best AS/400 demos of sites 
from
www.lansa.com and look in the Spotlight section. Very impressive. (and I'm
not a Lansa
programmer or BP. But it does show what a 400 can do! I've sent NT people 
to
some of these sights, and THEY are impressed. Didn't know the box could do
THAT.
Not a green-screen.
IMHO - Jim Franz

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