Re: Here we go again

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John, et al...

Since IBM INSISTS on keeping the 400 TIPPITY TOP SECRET no body is hearing
about it.... 

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, John Carr wrote:

> 
> Just a note,   Article on the AS/400.     First one I've seen on
> www.news.com
> I thought it was good for a while till..................
> 
> BTW,    Just in case you were curious,  Here's Randy's  email address.  
> 
>      randyw@cnet.com
> 
> Lets have an other cheer for accurate reporting.     Wasn't it 3  double
> digit quarters in a row.
> I know that not ERP sales but.............
> --------------------------------------
> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,26264,00.html?owv
> 
> <<<     IBM server finds new fans 
>                  By Randy Weston
>                  Staff Writer, CNET News.com
>                  September 11, 1998, 12:00 p.m. PT                      >>>
> 
> 
> Just when I was starting to enjoy the article Randy says this;
> 
> <<      But that's not to say that the AS/400 is seeing any
>                  kind of new life. Just the opposite is true in fact.
>                  According to AMR Research, the growth rate of
>                  AS/400 sales among the enterprise resource
>                  planning vendors is steadily declining. 
> 
>                  "AS/400 sales are not plummeting, but they are
>                  diminishing," Shepherd said. "In 1997, new sales of
>                  the AS/400-based enterprise resource planning
>                  products dropped 18 percent as of 1997."                  
>             >>>
> 
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