Re: So if there is no Hardware specific Advertising then ???????

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 04:05 PM 7/17/00 -0400, you wrote:

>Afternoon All,
>
>         Last night I saw for the first time, (I think) an IBM commercial on
>network television. I know that this is not unique !  But what was unique I
>thought was that the key speaker was holding and selling the RS/6000 B50
>rack mount server, and talking about an Enterprise class S80 (??) that took
>up the entire elevator as a bunch of people moved it in.
>
>         My Question:  When did hardware specific IBM ads reappear, and when
>will the AS/400 270 be featured in one ??



RANTMODE(*ON)

The day that hell freezes over.

IBM doesn't give a flaming @#$% about the AS/400, because there's nobody in 
the entire organization (Rochester excluded) that knows how to use 
one.  Even IBM doesn't use AS/400's.

I had an emergency support call from a relatively new AS/400 customer (3 
years) yesterday.  I asked them how they liked the AS/400, and they said 
that they loved it.  The IS guy's comment is that he replaced a staff of 17 
running MVS with 4 AS/400 people.

Instead IBM just loves to pay too much money to run under MVS.

Give me a break, if IBM advertised the AS/400, they'd get better market 
share.  If they used the AS/400, they have higher up time, internal user 
satisfaction and save money.

(Hey Lou, and you listening?  I doubt it, because IBM's current management 
technique is anything for a fast dollar.  The hell with customer sat.  Lou, 
you want to make a fast buck, sell the AS/400 Division.  But once you do, 
you better get out of the computer business, because no one could compete 
with a well run AS/400 Company!)

RANTMODE(*OFF)

With regard to AS/400 advertising, there were ads 12 years after the 
AS/400's introduction with the M*A*S*H crew, when IBM used them for 
advertising.

Al

PS:  I'm actively training for COMMON's next Soundoff, bet you didn't even 
notice   :-)))





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