Re: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul

Domino actually sold iSeries.  Local BP's were actually stumbling into 
shops that had iSeries only to run Domino.  IBM did an extensive marketing 
campaign at one LotusSphere for the iSeries.  Lines of hordes of people to 
their display were actually blocking the displays to other hardware 
vendors.  Granted, getting a chance to win a hot sports car versus a DVD 
player or a hunk of foam had a lot to do with it.  But the marketing 
worked.

We bought extra iSeries's to run Domino only applications.

I wonder how many people went out and bought the iSeries solely because it 
ran OV/400?

I liked the OV/400 word processor.  And I loved IBM Support Line people's 
support of it!  And I did get some users to use the calendaring, etc.  But 
people do like their GUI.

Rob Berendt
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Because they wanted to move people to Domino so they could make more
money.

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:25:23 -0400, "Pat Barber"
<mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> This whole OV/400 thing just makes me crazy. First
> they make HUGE announcements that it's gonna die,
> and it doesn't die, then they announce even more
> stuff and it doesn't die, and now here we are four
> or five years later, and it still works.
> 
> I don't think I will ever understand why they didn't
> simply leave wrkdoc and prtdoc alone. This was done
> with other older software such as BGU, which works
> just fine to this very day.
> 
> Pete Helgren wrote:
> 
> > Pat,
> > 
> > We took the existing 720 to V5R3M0 and then did a Save option 21 and a
> > restore to both i5/OS partitions (well, it was a little more complex 
but
> > basically that was it).  It works fine.  They primarily use it for 
mail
> > merges to create mailing labels and letters.  Don't think anyone uses 
it for
> > daily letter writing  :)
> 
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