RE: i NATION ListServer Confusion/ownership

I took the time to d/l the radio clips from iNation.  What a great
(WebSphere) ad for the iSeries (WebSphere) machines!  I can't (WebSphere)
believe how many (WebSphere) times they mentioned the (WebSphere) iSeries in
each ad!  

Once.

Justin C. Haase
Midrange Systems Engineer - Kingland Systems Corporation
IBM Certified AS/400 Systems Administrator
phone - 641.355.1035

-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:02 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: i NATION ListServer Confusion/ownership


>>Waiting for IBM (or my employer!) just 
>>hasn't worked that well in the past.

>Has iNation been established long enough to
>legitimately complain like this?  

Great question!  Let me counter with another (or two <grin>): What's IBM's
intent behind iNation? http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/nation/
Have IBM succeeded?  Are they intending to reveal some new things every week
until the entire plan is laid out before us?  Are they intending it as a
marketing vehicle?  It's difficult to say from the less than lofty position
I occupy.  My comments aren't a complaint as much as a rallying cry.

John Carr has tried in the past to get people here to send email to various
non-AS/400 publications, to simply get us some exposure.  I daresay his
efforts haven't borne as much fruit as he'd like.  If we gripe among
ourselves, we're just griping.  If we have constructive comments, we should
pass them on to official IBM - right now, iNation.  They are listening!

>What would the world be like if iNation
>didn't exist? 

Right now, today?  iNation could evaporate off the web and never be missed.
That's why we need to make ourselves heard.  Go post  some feedback today!
Tell IBM what you love about the box, what you want added, kept, removed:
tell them everything!  

I believe that our inaction will doom iNation to become an online sales
brochure.

Buck 
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