Re: IBM - Get with it.

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

EXACTLY John ! :-)

I am not NEAR as up or on the ball as some of your other guys are (one man shop
and BUSIER than heck right now...) but I can write a fairly convincing note to
these folks and sometimes hunting for the necessary "ammunition" takes TOO much
time ! PERFECT example was that thread you mention Friday on Slashdot. The guy
bragging about "MANY Unix shop hosting of 300 (that's THREE 0's)". I know of
several Terabyte AS/400 shops but I hit the AS/400 site and the Teraplex area
TRYING to find the MAX so I  could post THAT and mention the AS/400 but I never
DID get what I was looking for and "real" work called...

Chuck

jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM wrote:

> Chuck
> I think you & maybe others are missing the point that Al and Chuck Lewis
> were making.
> They want a place to put references to good articles(URLs) and Testimonials
> so that when
> THEY are on an Internet forum, or taking to someone or emailing someone,
> THEY can reference
> that site for a treasure trove of good info to use.  Something like what
> the IBM's AS/400  site trys
> to do with white papers, and consultant reports.
>
> However IBM is quite formal on what gets on their site.
> We would like a place to put references like the following.
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ec/xml/00/04/03/000403ectca2.xml
> http://www.as400.ibm.com/conslt/meta.htm
> http://www.as400.ibm.com/news/26jul2000b.htm
> http://www.as400.ibm.com/news/05jun2000.htm
> http://www.as400.ibm.com/news/26jun2000.htm
> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ec/xml/00/03/22/000322ecibmscm.xml
>
> And just as importantly,  real life stories culled from this group.
>
> But the main point,  it's so that WE can go to that place and point to that
> place for good stuff while we are on Internet forums, etc.
>
> John Carr
> -------------------------
> Chuck said;
> "we" already know how great it is...the testimonials need to be elsewhere
> for those who don't know about it.
>
> ----------------------
>
> > Maybe we should check with David about some sort of "testimonials" page
> > on Midrange.Com that we could reference for a source of facts, figures,
> etc. ?
>
> You guys please populate it, so I can point to it in my posts to various
> forums when relevant AS/400 openings come up, like in
> http://www.year2000.com/ecommerce list
>  sometimes I have a vague notion of the facts but do not have URL at my
> fingertips & might like to go to one place for a list of links.  Like today
> I
> was telling a digitally deprived nation's Chamber of Commerce about IBM's
> Partners in Education ... I strongly suspect that it is totally AS/400, but
> I
> am not for sure.
>
> Al Macintyre  ©¿©
>
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