RE: Late Breaking News - Buell out - All Zollar (sp?) in

["Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 4:51 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Late Breaking News - Buell out - All Zollar (sp?) in


>I dunno how much Mr. Duncan was involved with bringing Mr. Haines back to
>the iSeries Division.  But it did happen under His watch and, as others
have
>said, is GREAT.. for both the Division and the Server Group...  Mr. Haines
>may not be technical, but the posts on this forum lament the marketing
>(rightly or wrongly) MUCH more than the technical deficiencies of the
>iSeries.


Hi jt,

I am not a member of the "if IBM only spent $ on advertising the iSeries it
would be a great success" camp.  I am more of a build it and they will come
kind of guy.

I think the iSeries has to take on the W2K server market, the one used by
the huge population of VB programs and programmers.  A basic VB program, one
that accesses the server for its ADO/ODBC database, file serving and print
serving, should run interchangeably in a W2K or iSeries server network.   If
such a VB program is fully functional and runs just as fast on the iSeries
as W2K server I will concede that we need better marketing.   If not, then I
stay with my position that the system needs to be improved technically and
the company needs decision makers who have such a technical vision.

Steve