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i still say it's bad form to criticize one in a thread that is wishing
them well in their retirement!

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:
Neil Palmer <neilpalmer400mr@xxxxxxxx>
To:
Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
05/05/2008 11:26 PM
Subject:
Re: AS/400......IBM i



Tommy,

I'm not so sure you should be too quick to judge
Steve's comment. While it is certainly true that Bill
Zeitler was a passionate advocate for "our" system in
the past, he does shoulder a great deal of
responsibility for the decisions that led to where "i"
is ("i" am?) today.

...Neil


--- Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

bad form Steve...

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:
"Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
"Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
05/05/2008 11:00 AM
Subject:
Re: AS/400......IBM i



On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Anne Lucas
<alucas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I learned this morning that Bill Zeitler, IBM
Senior Vice President and
Group Executive, Systems and Technology Group, is
retiring. What an
awesome legacy he leaves customers and IBMers!
Bill was always over
100% in support of the midrange customers and
COMMON!

He never lost his love for the details of how
technology works. He
always wanted to checkout the insides of the box.
When walking through
the COMMON Expo on his last visit to COMMON, he
stopped at nearly every
booth with a computer and talked "tech talk".

At the Nashville COMMON conference, he wanted a
minute by minute update
on the latest IBM announcement....what do
customers think? In the midst
of all the announcement stuff, retirement plans,
and being a very busy
IBM executive, he and his wife took the time to
attend Al Barsa's
funeral service.

It's gonna take some "big shoes" to fill his
place!

if the drastic decline in investment in IBM i is
true, then Zeitler is
responsible, no? Hopefully his replacement will
believe IBM should
fight toe to toe against MSFT for dominance in the
operating system
and runtime framework space.

-Steve


Neil Palmer, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

(This account not monitored for personal mail,
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