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This is a multipart message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] But there is _one_ commercial they're doing that I wish they'd change just a tad: You know the one where this cheese (cheesy?) company is getting ready to go online. Some guy pushes a button on the laptop and voila! They're online. Then all of the website is hacked. The IBM e-business tag is shown after that. Ever notice what kind of laptop that is? Seems to me that if you're going to show a site being hacked, you're equipment should be _nowhere_ around. OH! It just hit me - Thinkpads run Windows... Tom Hightower Solutions, Inc http://www.simas.com "Booth Martin" <booth@MartinVT.com> Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com 01/28/02 02:58 PM Please respond to midrange-l To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> cc: Subject: Re: NBA advertisements: middleware? My gosh guys, cut IBM some slack here, huh? If your job is selling AS/400s then you have a nice new tool in your sales kit: "Did you see those new IBM ads? Well, I am here to show you what they're talking about. See this baby? Its the iServer and it can do what you want done. Can we talk?" No user really gives a damn about the name of the box, or the color of the racing stripe, Me? I'm glad for those ads. What I liked most was it talked about computiung and never once showed or said "Windows ..." -------------------------------------------- Booth Martin MartinB@Goddard.edu 802-454-8315 x235 -------------------------------------------- -------Original Message------- From: midrange-l@midrange.com Date: Monday, January 28, 2002 03:46:27 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: NBA advertisements: middleware? From: Don <dr2@cssas400.com> > that's OLD NEWS... > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Reeve Fritchman wrote: > > No, not "middeware". IBM management has placed the iSeries in the "nowhere" category.
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