Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.

> > Similar accounting games could be played with the hardware.
>  
>  Playing accounting games (if indeed that is going on) shows
>  the lack of respect that IBM has for its customer base. I'll say
>  this again: For customers (old and new - if any) to make
>  sound decisions about their future investment in a platform
>  requires that they know the truth instead of being pawns in
>  an accounting game.

We customers know from bitter experience that
IBM is in the technology game.
Marketing is not their area of expertise.
Accounting is not their bag.

They do not know how to do competent invoicing.
They do not know how to do correct invoicing.
Customers HAVE to audit IBM invoices regularly or suffer the consequences of 
being seriously overbilled.
The company has little or no interest in fixing their accounting.

What makes anyone have any confidence in their competence to do good 
accounting in some area where it really counts?

Of course IBM is not the only outfit that needs to be watched carefully.

In another thread in another discussion group, I shared the news that certain 
banks do not have competent accounting systems & their ATMs often give out 
wrong numbers of bills & errors are common on bank statements.  When I shared 
this story with other people, I heard other related stories confirming what I 
had learned, including the SAME BANK that often has the wrong number of bills 
from the ATM machine GAVE the former employer of a co-worker a GIFT of 
$50,000.00 error on bank statement & was in denial that they had done it.  
This bank that I am referring to but carefully not naming, is NOT the same 
one that I menitoned in my post about the e-banking virus that was draining 
depositor checking accounts.

I think that in the rush to fix Y2K, a lot of other stuff has been forgotten, 
such as the notion that rushed projects introduce new errors.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
AS/400 Data Manager & Programmer for BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 mixed mode (twinax 
interactive & batch) @ http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of 
Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical 
sub-assemblies - fax # 812-424-6838

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