RE: Tipton's COMMON opening speech

Does it come down to the fact that many of companies(the Dell's,
Microsofts, Sun's and HP's) 
are run by entrepeneurs or techies, who are emotionallly attached to
their products
but IBM is run by executives, who are not?(Not that theres anything
wrong with that!)

-----Original Message-----
From: Schenck, Don [mailto:Don.Schenck@WL.com]
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 2:14 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: 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 
+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to 
MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: 
david@midrange.com
+---
+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---