Re: Discontinuance of support for the *M36

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had one of the IBM customers with a S36, and had IBM AS/400 marketing
versus IBM RS/6000 marketing w/Unibol. The customer went cheap (rs/6000),
had a year of problems & disasters, and finally went to an AS/400. IBM "took
back" the RS6000. My wife still remembers that year I "disappeared". BTW-IBM
and Unibol never figured out who had the problem. They each pointed to the
other.
Jim Franz
----- Original Message -----
From: "nina jones" <ddi@datadesigninc.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: Discontinuance of support for the *M36


> > Your comments interest me.  I have started working with a small shop
that
> > has had their Sys/36 running with code that was untouched after 1984 and
> > 1988.  In October they ordered a new AS/400 and their Business Partner
> > installed it with the old code and *M36 then a few months later moved it
>
> i remember those days.
>
> we had several 36 clients that were horrified at the cost of the
> as/400.  the big rack mounted systems were $100,000+ to replace a system
> 36 that cost about $40,000.  and maintenance was $600 per month.
>
> ibm did a good job of scaring 36 people from buying the little 9404
> systems. some customers, they scared right out of the platform!  unibol
> had a field day!  i remember a big ibm promotion sales video, the theme
> was 'get them into the rack', the primary reason was there was a $750
> bonus if you could pull that off! i think ibm totally misjudged their
> market.
>


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