RES: Food for Thought

Hi,

Marketing, nobody buys what they don't know or hear about.

Regards,

Rubens

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Enviada em: terça-feira, 18 de novembro de 2008 10:17
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Assunto: RE: Food for Thought



If they ever heard of as/400 that is.... i don't know if this is the reason.

I mean Unix is like 40 yrs old, and is not been seen as "old".

But sure, most non-experts seeing an as/400 app (or "i" app) see those
green-screen interfaces. And they conclude that it is old. And they are
right. For non-experts the user interface *is* the whole system, nothing
else. Maybe it's an idea to name those green apps "as/400 apps" and newer
apps (i.e. client/server or web) "i" apps.

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:04:41 -0500
Subject: Re: Food for Thought
From: trevor@xxxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Because the current users of the IBM i are telling them that it is an
AS/400.

And, everyone knows... an AS/400 is old.



On 11/18/08 6:35 AM, "Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We all know the i is the bestest system in the world. But something
I puzzle about...why are all those folks with advanced computer
science degrees, or people with MBAs, and people with years of
experience picking Windows/Linux? Are they stupid? Are they just
caught up in the hype? Is this declining group of data processors
(us) smarter than the rest? While I like to think I'm a bright boy,
I also realize there are a bunch of other folks out there that know
more about computers, capabilities, and productivity than I'll ever

know. Just curious...

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