Re: iNation privleges offer or Tax?

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From: Portal39@aol.com
Subject: Re: iNation privleges offer or Tax?
>MARKETING PROPAGANDA   SHOULD BE *FREE*
>not a Citizen tax
>iNation Priveledge Offer - "Does it Have to Be This Hard... What If?"
cd-rom.

We could "wish" for it to be free, but IBM's running this like a Business
Partner
program, and not much is free there either.

So - what are we to do? Personally, when I talk to managers (cfo,cio,mis) or
even
uninformed IS staff, tools like this are very handy, because they can be
viewed in their
own time (at home, on a plane, etc). The presenter is not from IBM, and
makes it very
clear he's not an IBM'r. He makes a very clear case that Sun, HP, MS do not
have the
best product on the market, that IBM does (and it's the iSeries). Since my
career is
built on this platform, and if my customers abandon the box for something
else would be
very bad, I'm going to do everything I can to convince them that the BEST
choice is
to move forward. If that cost me $20, then so be it. I stopped beleiving IBM
would
ever "give" me something along with the tooth fairy (but Santa's another
story).
Protect your career, educate the people around you. (another way is to sign
your customers
up for the iSeries magazine (free) from IBM. Don't even tell them..
jim

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