RE: Tipton's COMMON opening speech

Chuck --


<<
I was illustrating a point that I know first-hand the effect of sending 
hundreds of letters to IBM. It has no effect. So why even suggest it?
>>


I remember that. What a MAJOR disappointment. It was then that I took up
Visual Basic; I saw the handwriting on the wall (and it was REALLY hard to
read because it was all CAPITAL letters and each word was only SIXCHR's long
and THEYALLRANTOGETHER <grin>).



<<
And I'll say this: action is almost worthless in the AS/400 market. I will 
wager money that despite your efforts, despite Bob Tipton's very 
provocative speech, and despite the endless messages on this list, the web 
forums, and the AS/400 newsgroup, that I have no hope that IBM will do what 
Bob suggested in his speech: turn the AS/400 division loose on the market, 
and have it run by a maniacal, egotistical, charismatic figure that will 
irritate and motivate and succeed (as they do at Apple, Microsoft and Sun).
>>


Hmmmm ... *I* am maniacal, egotistical and charismatic. I'm a PERFECT fit to
run the AS/400 division.

Interesting aside: Listen to Tom Peters -- love his stuff -- talk about how
Lexmark was going NOWHERE until it split from IBM. The _CULTURE_ as IBM was
(is?) all wrong. I'm not making this up; Tom Peters said that.

(and if everything were right in the world, we'd all be using Macintoshes)

Peace,

-- Don 
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