Re: Poor IFS performance? -- MIDRANGE-L

This all boils down to a marketing question. From the AS/400 ads you see
(what few IBM AS/400 ads you do see) you'd get the feeling that IBM uses
the AS/400 marketing department as a training ground for new recruits,
and once they prove that they can successfully string together two
sentences they are yanked off the AS/400 team and put in some other
area.

Have you seen the cool ad for Sun, the kinda James Bond movie ad? Thats
the stuff the AS/400 needs. 

"Stone, Brad V (TC)" wrote:
> 
> IBM has held a grudge agains the AS/400 ever since Soltis proposed the idea
> for the machine.  Or so I've heard.
> 
> I doubt that the 400 does more than the RS and NetFinity.  Maybe more than
> NF, but not for long.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Williams [mailto:colin.williams@technocrats.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 7:34 AM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Poor IFS performance?
> 
> Does the AS/400 make more money for IBM than Netfinity and RS/6000? If so,
> why are they not ramming the AS/400 down the throats of everybody in
> Computerland, its a truly great system, and its still getting better every
> year. Why are they trying to kill it. Is the AS/400 still succeeding in
> spite of IBM's best efforts?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Barsa, Jr. [mailto:barsa2@ibm.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 12:08 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Poor IFS performance?
> 
> At 11:22 PM 2/27/00 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> Patrick,
> 
> I believe that IBM has a server specifically tuned for Notes.
> 
> Just like they have interactive vs batch performance tuned models.
> 
> I agree that they are claiming this.  As they will not explain how this is
> done, this strikes me as closed and proprietary, or else they are just
> lying.  (I understand that  they get pissed when I talk about them lying,
> but do you remember how V3R1 was "pure guava"?
> 
> RANTMODE(*ON)
> My some Albert III still wears the tee-shirt as a sleep shirt.  So I am
> constantly reminder of that release that could most politely be referred to
> as "hanus".
> RANTMODE(*OFF)
> 
> I do not suspect that this performance enhancement (or just pure crock) will
> not have any effect on the disk performance/space issues in the IFS.  I am
> actively open to criticism on this point.  (If IBM would like to explain how
> they do this, I will be happy to retract my, closed/proprietary/crock/or
> just plain bullshit comments, but my sense is that some fathead is too
> stupid to do this.)
> 
> RANTMODE(*ON)
> It's incredible how IBM works hard to retain fatheads, and then incents
> smart people like Jim Sloan, Wayne Evans, Janet Krueger and David Money to
> leave.  Keep up the good work IBM, this is why I own your competitor's
> stock.  If you do own IBM stock, when Lou quits, sell your stock, and sell
> it short - as there will be nothing left of what used to be a wonderful
> corporation!  (I know Lou doesn't like when I say this, but he also doesn't
> understand the mathematical expression that 400>390.  I really hope that
> before he quits that he sells the AS/400 Division, because then I will
> invest heavily, promote the product properly, and kick the ass out of the
> remainder of all of the computer industry including whatever corporation the
> then dead IBM will become!  [I have formally invited him to visit my office
> twice, and both times he very promptly and properly declined my invitation.
> Both our offices and homes are less than 10 miles away from each other.]
> This is one of the ways that IBM tries to kill the AS/400 constantly.  After
> all, why would they want to promote a product that makes a huge profit, when
> they promote Netfinity and RS/6000 which only lose over a billion dollars a
> year?)
> RANTMODE(*OFF)
> 
> Al
> 
> PS:  As this topic has mostly been highly technical in nature, I have been
> bcc:ing two IBMers who usually do not monitor this list.
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> 400 > 390
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