RE: Here we go again

[Neil Palmer <NeilP@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe if we could get IBM to donate a model 170 for SAAB dealers to 
raffle off in their showrooms !     ;-)



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-----Original Message-----
From:   Don [SMTP:dr2@access.digex.net]
Sent:   Monday, September 14, 1998 12:54 PM
To:     John Carr
Cc:     Midrange-L
Subject:        Re: Here we go again



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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