Re: MAKEMONEY cmd

Al
FWIW I think your right.

IBM also has to add more function to the systems, enhance the new stuff, invite/entice new customers and support personnel. Right now they are unfortunately, holding the AS/400 as a closet system and killing off their knowledge equity, while divorcing their grassroots relationships. The decline representation /presents at Common is only to some 2800 or so people and most are repeat attendees. How is the scope getting broadened?

I would like to be proven wrong as this seems to be the theme across all divisions and product lines ( varying in degree for system to system.)


At 01:41 PM 04/02/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>At 11:38 AM 4/2/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Let us look at the bottom line:
>
>1. IBM doesn't care about the AS/400 (even though it is the best
>computer architecture in the world). IBM only cares about their the fact
>that their MAKEMONEY command, which is the AS/400 and the S/390. Despite
>this fact, they don't invest in marketing these platforms, because they are
>already profitable.
>
>2. IBM invests in marketing it's "strategic" platforms. IBM invests
>in Netfinity because they fantasize that Netfinity can play in the server
>market. IBM invests in the RS/6000 because they fantasize that the RS/6000
>can eat into the Sun marketplace.
>
>3. Neither of these "strategic" platforms will ever succeed. This is
>because the awesome overhead at IBM will never permit them to be cost
>effective. Mr. Gerstner effectively manages IBM to stock price. The day
>that Lou announces his retirement, sell your IBM stock, and sell it
>short. He has done a very efficient job of squeezing all of the
>intellectual capital out of IBM, where it didn't show on it's balance sheet
>(and didn't pay income taxes) and putting it onto the income statement (and
>consequently the balance sheet into retained earnings [there by paying
>income taxes to Mr. Clinton]).
>
>4. If IBM cared about the long term, they would do things like:
>
>o Invest in marketing the AS/400. (The best computer architecture in
>the world.)
>o Not screw their employees by changing the retirement system.
>o Incent experienced employees to stay, and not incent experienced
>employees (their brain trust) to leave early. Examples include Jim Sloan,
>Wayne Evans, Janet Krueger, and Bill Davidson. Although these individuals
>have left IBM's AS/400 Division, they still support the AS/400 community.
>
>The bottom line is that the AS/400 is here, and here to stay. IBM is too
>smart to kill it, and too stupid to market it. It's not going away, and
>neither is the S/390. IBM is so political that any one platform will never
>win.
>
>Personally, I have given up on IBM marketing of the AS/400. We started
>complaining (as a user community) about the ineffective marketing of the
>AS/400 at COMMON in 1991. IBM hasn't listened in nine years, and there's
>no reason to expect that they will ever listen.
>
>Investing in marketing the AS/400 is good for IBM long term objectives, but
>IBM only cares about tomorrow, not next year.
>
>Al
>
>>Al, et al...
>>
>>I would submit that you need an additional parm on the MAKMNY *CMD:
>>PRODREC with values of *HIGH, *MED, *LOW, *IGNOREDBYIBM, with the
>>*IGNOREDBYIBM to be the current default.
>>
>>As we all know and as I discussed last week with some IBM Mgrs, until the
>>product recognition for this brand is improved, the result of your MAKMNY
>>function will be at the low end of the curve...
>>
>>Don inDC
>>
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Doug Lewis wrote:
>>
>> > Al,
>> >
>> > This would be nice if it was true, but when was the last time you attempted
>> > to get a position without any experience?
>> > AS/400 entry level jobs are hard to come by in the current market, almost
>> > everyone wants experience. IBM does not have to convince students,
>> > businesses need to hire them(required parm for MAKEMONEY cmd) and word of
>> > mouth will do the rest.
>> >
>> > searching for the MAKEMONEY cmd in my text:-)
>> >
>> > Doug Lewis
>> > AS/400 Student
>> > Milwaukee Area Tech College
>> > dougl1@execpc.com
>> > 414.840.0730
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@ibm.net>
>> > To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>> > Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 4:22 PM
>> > Subject: Re: The "greying of Common" Is it still true?
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> > > What IBM has needs to do, and has failed to do IMHO, is convince college
>> > > faculties and then students that after they learn after they learn those
>> > > crazy CL commands, the byproduct will be to automatically execute the
>> > > MAKEMONEY command.
>> > >
>> > > Al
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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Glenn
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