Re: The only hope to save the AS/400 (was: IBM knows how to treatit's employ... -- MIDRANGE-L

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Al,

In a message dated 11/23/99 5:38:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, barsa2@ibm.net 
writes:

> I happen to think that the only hope to save the AS/400 is for IBM to sell 
>  the division.  No one in Armonk truly understands the value of the 
>  AS/400.  There's a thought process that says if it isn't Netfinity (which 
>  IBM only lost a billion dollars on last year), it isn't computing.
>  
>  I would invest if the AS/400 company were spun off.
<<snip>>

Amen, Al.  Perhaps they'd include OS/2 in the deal?  Waitin' on the IPO...

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

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.  You must first set 
yourself on fire." -- Fred Shero
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