Re: Zeitler call comments

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In my mind, the key question isn't whether the iSeries box is central to the IBM
hardware strategy.  It is whether iSeries-based software and operational skills
will be useful in the eServer of the future;  this vision of server
consolidation sure seems to be exceedingly complex;  I wonder whether today's
midrange customers will be willing or able to deal with it...

Hopefully Kim's call will be able to set our minds at rest, because right now
the IBM strategy looks awfully scary, despite all the talk about eLiza...

Janet Krueger
Rochester





"Anne Lucas" <alucas@us.ibm.com> on 04/27/2002 09:54:49 AM

Please respond to midrange-l@midrange.com

To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
cc:    (bcc: Janet Krueger/COMMON)
Subject:  Zeitler  call comments



I clipped a few of your comments into a separate note ...  but first...
this stream of notes, Dan on your impending DASD failure... have you talked
with anyone in Rochester?  Anything I can do to get the right IBMer
helping??

OK ... do me a big favor, pls listen to the replay of Bill Zeitler's
call....
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/audience/Homepage.wss?view=ination
See if you don't hear the #1 guy for IBM hardware say without any doubt
that iSeries is central to the IBM hardware strategy ...

It's because of this group that I went to Zeitler and said:  Bill, they
just don't believe this system is important to IBM --- he was speaking to
the faithful, but also to the world.... as his quotes are going to press!
So .... puleeze hear him out .if you didn't...    There is no way he'd say
what he did if it wasn't true!

Based on input I've received from a host of others who were on the call or
listened to the replay, they heard him say just how important iSeries is to
IBM.   You'll hear more Monday on Kim's call.....


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From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@samsa.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Subject: RE: Questions (Zeitler call)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:24:19 -0400
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

>iSeries is the center of our eserver strategy

Without knowing the context, Anne, since I wasn't in on the conversation,
at
first glance I'd call it a meaningless quote.  What does it mean?  Does it
mean that iSeries is the basis from which all of the three other platforms
will produced?  In the future??

I dunno, it just sounds like it's what the iSeries faithful wanted to hear.
Nothing else.

Dan Bale
SAMSA, Inc.
989-790-0507
DBale@SAMSA.com <mailto:DBale@SAMSA.com>
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)


From: "John Taylor" <jtaylor@rpg2java.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Subject: Re: Questions (Zeitler call)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:32:52 -0600
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

Anne,

I didn't hear the conversation either, but I tend to agree with Dan. Sounds
like the same old rhetoric that we've been hearing for the last couple of
years.

>>iSeries is the center of our eserver strategy

Like Dan said, what does that mean?

If it means that the iSeries will be able to run the other platforms in
LPAR, then it's old news, and not even interesting. After all, (to me) the
main advantages of the box aren't limited to the hypervisor that enables
LPAR. Running Linux on iSeries hardware doesn't thrill me.

If it means that the iSeries is being pillaged for the technology to make
Eliza a reality, then I have to say, big deal.... that's great for the
other
eServer's, but what's in it for "i"?


Regards,

John Taylor



From: "Steve Richter" <srichter@autocoder.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Subject: RE: Questions
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:42:36 -0400
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

Hi Anne,

I think you are doing a great job.

It is promising that the system will have the horsepower that it needs

Mr Zeitler sounds like he knows what is going on.  I have confidence in
him.
My immed thought when I was listening to him though was that the continuing
consolidation that he was describing is good for IBM, it makes the company
more manageable.  But is it best for the customer ?   For example, the
continued deemphasis of interactive terminal computing and emphasis on
client/server helps IBM deliver a one size fits all solution.  But a
customer who just wants to add graphics to a telnet session is out of luck.

This is the 2nd time I have heard Buell Duncan speak.  The first time I
heard him speak maybe to business partners and tell them that the iSeries
hosting NT was a great business opportunity. My immed thought then: Oh
brother ...   This time I heard Mr Zeitler interupt Duncan saying something
to the effect of "you did not understand the question, here is the better
answer".   I question if Mr Duncan understands what is going on.

Speaking my mind for the good of our platform. Looking forward to next
weeks
call.

Steve Richter






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