RE: $5 Billion in AS/400 sales in 1998 ?

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

And STILL Gerstner won't let them take the gloves off and attack NT head
on in a full scale ALL media marketing blitz !

Too bad the DOJ didn't force IBM to divest itself of the AS/400 division
years ago.
There would be no tiptoeing around afraid to say anything that might
negatively affect their Services or Netfinity groups !     :-(



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Carr [SMTP:74711.77@compuserve.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 1998 7:10 PM
> To:   Midrange-L
> Subject:      $5 Billion in AS/400  sales in 1998 ?
> 
> 
> Hey All,
> 
> For an obscure machine,   a LOT of people are buying them !
> Take a look at this week's "Monday Morning Update"
> 
> "Can IBM Break $5 Billion in AS/400 Sales for 1998?"
> http://www.midrangecomputing.com/mmu/98/m980810.htm
> 
> <<  According to Tom Jarosh, general manager of the AS/400 line, 
> The AS/400 business has never been stronger.   >>
> 
> <snip>
> 
>     <<..... That revenue level would make the AS/400 hardware
> business, for
>   the first time in IBM's  history, as big as the company's flagship
>   mainframe business.    And  depending on how the new G5 series
>   mainframes are perceived by the market (and depending on the prices
>   that IBM can charge based on intense price competition from clone
>   mainframe makers Hitachi Data Systems and Amdahl and clone
>   disk maker EMC),   the  AS/400 hardware business could actually
>   end up being bigger than the mainframe hardware business. >>>
> 
> <Just a Snippet>
> 
> BTW,    I sent a similar posting to about 20 or so  writers and
> editors of
> Magazines.
> Lets see if they pick up on it.     It's our time to shine!
> 
> Respectfully 
> John Carr CDP
> EdgeTech
> 5921 Acorn Ridge Ct
> Midlothian Va. 23112
> 804-739-7689
> 74711.77@compuserve.com
> 
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