Re: IBM Spin Doctors on AS/400 Marketing

[Jim Welsh <jimwelsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

boothm@ibm.net wrote:

> on 11/01/97at 01:13 AM, the Great and Grand  Wazir DAsmussen@aol.com
> said:
>
> 
So, why is everyone purchasing NT other than management edicts and
> the
> 
"that's the way everyone's going" mentality?
>
> They're buying NT to be "positioned for the future."  IBM is doing a
> lousy
> job of showing any managers a future with the mid-range machines.  We
> see
> it, but the ones that go to the tradeshows and conventions in Las
> Vegas
> every winter don't see a black box.  They see Thinkpad laptops running
>
> Win95 and decide MS is the new king of the hill.  Strange, but they
> don't
> even see the Thinkpad, just the flying window.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Booth Martin
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Friends, Programmers, Perfectionists and Pirates alike:

Lend me your ears...

For a rich man ( or woman, or frankenstein and his bride )
to enter the Kingdom Of Itty Bity Miracles (IBM)...

Tis like thee CAMEL through the EYE of the NEEDLE.

and for a poor man it's not all that pretty either.

Many if not most managers ( or is it the controlling CFO ) would not
know what to
do with an AS/400, a Thinkpad, a copy of Win95, a BIC lighter or an NT
box...

Ask not what your AS/400 can do for you
Rather
What can YOU do for your AS/400.

GREED my friends. We are all trapped in this world of greed and Mobster
Daddy's little
HELL RAISERS.

Don't you think you have BETTER THINGS to do than to squabble amongst
yourselves in this TINY WINY little newsgroup ?

So ya wanna be programmers huh...

Then GET BUSY, for the HOUR IS LATE.

FIX THE *UCKING ODOMETER FOLKS!!!!!!!!!!!

For MY SON

DRIVES A STEALHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good Day

  ---
Jim Welsh
Programmer/Analyst
FORMERLY OF THIS COMMIE PIG OUTFIT: B&B Cash Grocery Stores, Inc.
AND NOW UNEMPLOYED!!!!!!!!!
http://www.netcom.com/~jimwelsh/welcome/welcome.html


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