Re: IBM - Get with it.

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

I disagree ... IBM corporate under Lou has zero interest in the products the 
future etc., just Lou's retirement bonus based on the stock prices ... IBM 
AS/400 guys are reading this & are almost powerless to change IBM corporate 
handcuffs on their marketing efforts so individually they make decisions to 
use one of the retirement bail out packages, or hang on doing the work they 
love in hopes that the madness will not be forever, or attempt career suicide 
by using marketing techniques that they are hoping IBM corporate will not see 
... IBM corporate does NOT want nitch marketing that is hardware specific & 
the end run guys are doing precisely that.

Before the current shake-up, there was a fourth option ... some group of 
former AS/400 IBM gurus might have managed to persuade IBM corporate to sell 
out the AS/400 division to them, in which IBM would have retained some 
financial investment, but the deal would have been engineered to maximize IBM 
stock price, which is the only thing IBM corporate wants, in exchange for the 
AS/400 IBM gurus to get what AS/400 lovers want ... control of AS/400 future 
by people who really care about it.

>  From:    mgraziano@badgermeter.com (Graziano, Marie)
>  
>  If IBM is reading these messages,  
>  
>  HEY BIG guys. Start to market the AS/400 In a positive way.  Everyone in 
the
>  industry is asking why IBM does not know when they have something GOLD.
>  
>  They must be looking at the silver market.  Gold is no interest to them.
>  TOO BAD!
>  
>  Marie Graziano
>  
>   -----Original Message-----
>  From:    jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM [mailto:jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM] 
>  Sent:    Tuesday, July 25, 2000 9:05 PM
>  To:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>  Subject: RE: IBM - Thompson & Palmisano move up.
>  
>  
>  The other point you may consider is that who replaces Palmisano ? Bill
>  Zeitler replaced Palmisano.
>  Bill knows and loves AS/400.  This may be good news kids.
>  
>  http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/07/24/000724hnibmcoo.xml
>  
>  John Carr


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AS/400 V4R3 http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of Indiana--->Quality 
manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical sub-assemblies

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