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At 08:24 AM 7/12/00 -0400, you wrote: >OUT OF CONTEXT: BORN TO COMPUTE? >"We get endless e-mails and snail mails from people telling us how to market >the AS/400. That's evidence that it isn't a commodity, because you don't >feel passion about coffee or oil, but you do about something like an AS/400. >Outside computing, the Harley Davidson owners tattoo themselves with the >Harley Davidson logo. So far nobody's tattooed themselves with the IBM logo, >but we think that's just because of its design." >* Malcolm Haines, IBM's chief AS/400 propagandist Why would I ever want to permanently mark my body with the logo of a company that can't market. The corporate theme song of the Server Division, should be "If I only had a brain". If AS/400 Division had a logo that was used (other than on the product), maybe it would be used. Al - in London - where it's rainy and cold - going home tomorrow (Thursday) +--------------------------------------------------+ | Please do not send private mail to this address. | | Private mail should go to barsa@ibm.net. | +--------------------------------------------------+ Al Barsa, Jr. - Account for Midrange-L Barsa Consulting, LLC. 400 > 390 Phone: 914-251-1234 Fax: 914-251-9406 http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.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 +---
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