RE: News/400's new web site?

["Schenck, Don" <Don.Schenck@xxxxxx>]

Pat --

Are you serious?

Do you realize HOW IMPORTANT the web is?

Read ANYTHING by management guru Tom Peters. We are NOT in a "paradigm
shift" or a "major change"; we are in a "once in 500 years" REVOLUTION ...
fueled by the Internet.

If you underestimate the impact of the web, you'll be in history with those
who said computers wouldn't matter and the automobile is doomed to failure.

Get with the program; don't blame IBM or News 400 for keeping with the
times.

Peace,

-- Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Barber [mailto:mboceanside@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: March 14, 2000 5:18 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: News/400's new web site?




"Schenck, Don" wrote:
> 
> Pat --
> 
> WHAT?
> 
> You lost me.
> 
> What do you mean when you say "I think News/400 has lost a lot of it's
> direction...." ????

I explained that my rambling sentences didn't state what I was really
saying. The blurb about IBM is another subject that shouldn't have been
mentioned in the same message about News/400.

News/400's content for the last few years has shifted(IMO) to almost
nothing
but web,internet,java,etc,etc stories. While some have appeal to a great
many,
I don't think the e-thing is the entire 400 story, nor should it be.
News/400
seems to flow along with what IBM announced in the last 90 days and
forget
all the shops who have NO plans to have or want a web site. While
e-business
is very important, a lot of folks are still out there doing that daily
grind
with RPG,CL,etc,etc. In years past News/400 broke some very important
stories
and provided programmers with some really useful stuff. I don't see that
sort
of thing much these days. I don't deny that e-business is the very
trendy thing
of today, but I believe that the vast majority are being bullied into
this
thing with IBM and News/400 leading the way. You are considered less
than a
professional if you aren't working on a web site for your business. The
web
was a joke for doing business just a few years ago, now it's our only
salvation. I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. I will not
live
in the past, but I will not be shoved into the future until it makes
sense.

Sorry about the excessive rambling.....
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