Re: Important story - Re: Finally...someone speaks out...

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From: Rob Berendt <rob@dekko.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:18 AM
Subject: RE: Important story - Re: Finally...someone speaks out...


> I found Bob's opening quite negative.  I too thought that COMMON 
> could have found a better opening speaker than him, (or maybe it 
> was his topic).  I wrote so on my evaluation.  Perhaps they've taken 
> cost cutting to the extreme.
> 
> The reason that the AS/400 is so good is because it is IBM

I agree with Bob on this. IBM (Rochester) did an outstanding
job with the S/38. The quality of that achievement shines through
to the AS/400. But IBM is also the source of the trouble with
AS/400 as they don't know squat about marketing 101.


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