Re: IBM - Get with it.

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

At 05:01 PM 7/26/00 -0400, you wrote:

>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.

I'd invest.  It would be fun to watch what's left of IBM grab their ankles, 
when a properly marketed AS/400 pounds the crap out of them.

Al




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