Re: IBM Spin Doctors on AS/400 Marketing

Booth,

In a message dated 97-11-06 00:34:26 EST, you write:

> 
Perhaps your problem, Dean, is that you don't actually read the trade mags
>  
or research products.
>  
>  
>Dean Asmussen
>  
>  
Chris Rehm
>  
>  I have a lot of respect for both you guys.  Each of you has valid points
>  and valid experiences.  Neither of you guys is wrong, ok?  Now, you two
>  just as soon wash some windows together?  One inside, the other one
>  outside?
>  
>  The point about Applications really hit the topic I thought.  This is from
>  today's WSJ: "... In addition, the company clearly underestimated the
>  difficulty of setting up a billing system. Jeff Lill, a former Microsoft
>  manager in charge of MSN's infrastructure, says billing software was the
>  responsibility of a single programmer who had no experience in the field."

>  Microsoft set up MSN and assigned   _one_   programmer to take care of
>  writing a billing package?  (I know, its anecdotal.  But it is funny too.)

You're right, Booth.  A single response that I intended to be satirical, yet
correct in my own experience, has turned ugly -- after reviewing some of the
posts from the fresh perspective that you have provided, Chris and I sound
like my kids fighting.  I quit, and hope that Chris will do the same...

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"So a man said to God, 'What's a million years to you?'  God replied 'It's a
second.'  So the man asked of God, 'What's a million dollars to you?'  God
replied, 'A penny'.  So the man said to God 'Will you give me a penny?'  God
said 'Yes I will -- in a second.' " -- Unknown
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