Re: Wall Street Journal Ad for AS/400

Oh, I'm NOT laughing, believe me. At this same place, the controller (you know,
the guy who is supposed to WATCH the money...) read something about 100mb
Ethernet and came running to I.S. blabbing that we needed to do that to the
desktop. It was a 16mb Token Ring shop which was in NO WAY squeezed for response
- per Lanalyzer's (sp) etc. The cost of replacing 350+ T/R cards and rewiring
everything for NOTHING... $$$$$$$$$

We considered it(100mb) to run between wiring closets, etc. and for the 
backbone,
but decided fiber would make MUCH more sense...

AMAZING but true... And then of course when you want money for something that
makes SENSE...



Jack Bogart wrote:

> Don't laugh.  At a client location at which I was working, 30+ Xerox
> Docucenters were purchased as a result of a TV ad...
>
> Jack Bogart
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> Phone 265-5516;  Pager 268-7657
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Chuck Lewis[SMTP:CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET]
> > Sent:         Wednesday, September 30, 1998 11:50 AM
> > To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:      Re: Wall Street Journal Ad for AS/400
> >
> > You're not pulling our leg Dave ? <BG>
> >
> > ABOUT TIME !!!
> >
> > I can see it now (where I used to work and where we had a 530 and a 500),
> > the
> > company exec walks into IS and say, "Hey, look at this add in todays
> > Journal - do
> > you think we should get one of these AS/400's things... ?" :-)  :-(
> >
> > Dave Mahadevan wrote:
> >
> > > Folks:
> > >
> > > I just saw a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal in the Marketplace
> > > section.  This has a guy thinking with a tiny AS/400 on the side and
> > > talks about data mining.  Good job IBM.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thank You.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net
> > >
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