Re: Tipton's COMMON opening speech

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

John,

At 08:01 AM 3/20/00 -0500, you wrote:

> >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, .........
>   >... Chuck
>
> I guess that's the heart of our disagreement.   I didn't think
> it was that 
> provocative.

 I think it was, but in a positive way.  It was *designed* to
get a rise out of IBM and to have the crowd join in the cheering!

> <Action is almost worthless in the AS/400
> market>
> Kinda defeatist isn't it?  Or on the other hand I think I 
> get your point.   Action is worthless but talking isn't
> huh?

 If you recall, recently Jon posted a response to this board that
the community response did have an effect on the decision of adding the
partial freeform.  I also think that it had an effect of today's
forward thinking.  

 The reality is that for the people that were pushing it, it was
"too little, too late."  That doesn't mean that we
shouldn't ask / push / beg / cajole / petition, etc. IBM for new
things.

 -mark