RE: More anti-midrange propaganda

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Booth Martin

| I love it!  I'd add one twist of irony maybe?  Instead of the
| logo I'd pan down the hall to their data center and zoom in
| on their iSeries in the back of the room.   Maybe the nerdy guy would be
| saying something like "This is what we run on now.  None of those other
| solutions *pointing to the racks in the front of the room* have ever given
| us what we need." " Wanna see Linux in a production environment?"
|     Maybe he could walk past a 20-something whiz kid in the hall
| picking up
| spilled nickles.

"Then one of the nerdy looking conference attendees pipes in and says,"
<snip rest-a prior messages hard to read anyhoo...;->

Well, no sooner posted "no time" than Boss calls...  But would like to point
out real quick:  GREAT, and creative, ads but the image you'd want of the
iSeries advocate is NON-nerdy.  If ad placed in scenario where folks are
wearing ties, the iSeries guy/gal where's a tie.  If sleeves rolled up, the
iSeries proponent has sleeves rolled up, and if discussion is set amongst a
group of nerds then the iSeries Citizen is /slightly/ less nerdy, etc...
Same basic ad placed in multiple scenarios makes point that one-a the core
strengths of both mid-rangers/iSeries is ability to wear more than one hat.

And in reality, if you actually wanna SEE some ads like this, you have (at
least) three options:
1)  Pony up the money.  Pass the collection plate...  Takes a LOTTA money,
'course.
2)  Take up a smaller collection and place text ads that refer to
community-developed website(s) (if any).
3)  If you wanna see *IBM do this ad* then you can't mention the iSeries by
name (and there's no need to and would probably work /even better/ if
"iSeries" was NOT mentioned).  Won't happen as an iSeries ad, per recent
thread on  Cecelia Maresse's comments quoted in NewsWire Daily, titled
"iSeries (non-) Marketing"...  jmv of situation, 'course.