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Please don't remind me about Lucent! We recently purchased a division
specializing in cable for the telecommunication industry. Guess who their
biggest customer was?
Rob Berendt
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A smart person learns from their mistakes,
but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes.
"Jim Franz"
<franz400@triad.rr. To:
<MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
com> cc:
Sent by: Subject: Re: Midrange
Computing is liquidating.
owner-midrange-l@mi
drange.com
07/27/2001 06:17 PM
Please respond to
MIDRANGE-L
Many posts are asking or pointing to iSeries decline as the reason for MC's
demise. It is clear the iSeries is not growing by leaps & bounds. But it is
also clear the entire tech industry & many other publications are having
similar problems. One of the biggest Internet & paper magazines, The
Industry Standard www.thestandard.com has shrunk dramatically in size (more
than MC & News) and is in the middle of dramatic layoffs & cutting. Compaq,
Dell, Gateway are all slashing. HP's going to layoff 6,000 workers! Some
fiber optics co just took a 45Billion hit. Lucent may die. And look who
just
posted a modest return?
IBM! and the iSeries division still "made" money. The rumors of our demise
are greatly exaggerated.
jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.
> the not paying attention was just a take-off on your signature.
> no need to be sorry.
> and lots of other (most?) people are also in denial.
> the good news is that IBM apparently foresee a
> slow demise of the platform. Extrapolating their own
> figures show a 1.5% decline per year. since the
> fraction of IBM's revenue resulting from the AS/400 now
> stands at about 10%, you can do the arithmetic.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Rehm <javadisciple@earthlink.net>
> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 12:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.
>
>
> > That so? So everyone else here has been expecting this but I was in
denial?
> > Wow, sorry.
> >
> > Chris Rehm
> > javadisciple@earthlink.net
> > If you believe that the best technology wins the
> > marketplace, you haven't been paying attention.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
> > To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 9:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.
> >
> >
> > > maybe you just haven't been paying attention?
> > > It is called denial...
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Chris Rehm <javadisciple@earthlink.net>
> > > To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 10:37 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Well, I'm not sure it is all doom and gloom, but I know it isn't a
> > > > _positive_ sign.
> > > >
> > > > I think it mostly says that the market for AS/400 specific
technologies
> > is
> > > > getting smaller. Which would mean, I suppose, that if the iSeries
is
to
> > > > survive it needs to compete in more popular marketplaces.
> > > >
> > > > But what it really says to me is that the market is much further
along
> > that
> > > > road than I thought. I am very sorry to hear that! It caught me off
> > guard,
> > > I
> > > > guess I thought I'd have heard more speculation about such an event
> > before
> > > > it happened.
> > > >
> > > > Chris Rehm
> > > > javadisciple@earthlink.net
> > > > If you believe that the best technology wins the
> > > > marketplace, you haven't been paying attention.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Don" <dr2@cssas400.com>
> > > > To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > > > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 7:35 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > UH, What do you THINK is says?! :)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > At 09:17 PM 7/26/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> > > > > >I've got to say, Don, this blows my mind. Unreal. What does that
say
> > > > about
> > > > > >the state of the market?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > > > >From: "Don" <dr2@cssas400.com>
> > > > > >To: <Undisclosed recipients:>
> > > > > >Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:49 PM
> > > > > >Subject: Midrange Computing is liquidating.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I just recieved a call from Shawnna Allison at Midrange
> Computing.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The company is folding. They told the employees that today
is
> > their
> > > > last
> > > > > > > day.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This is a bit of a shock.....
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Don in DC
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
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