Re: Goodbye/400

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan,

I've got a better chance at a hot and private weekend with Brittany Spears
than you do at ever seeing these much talked and begged for ads from
IBM....

Don in DC

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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Jan Megannon wrote:

> Hi there folks,
>
> I realise that this may not be appropriate in  this forum, but it is
> valid!!
>
>
> AS/400.
>
> iSeries.
>
> What do we have without the commitment from IBM? Just another shell? Are
> we to become the the voices of another soundles trumpet?
> Bloody hell, there is so much going on on 'our' platform! Yet, it
> appears to be only us that sees it.
>
> Ever purchased a 'red' (or any other colour)  car, just to see how many
> other 'red' vehicles there are  on the road?
>
> Why is it that those that have not yet been converted do not see what we
> see? Albeit that the US of A is probably the biggest market for the 400,
> we in our part of the world do not watch the Super Bowl (or some do)!!
> PLEASE IBM, develop an ad that applies to the rest of us as well! Maybe
> your local chapters could air THAT in our locales as well. Failing that,
> please apportion a part of the advertising budget to them so that they
> could devise something more applicable to the market in which the ad is
> aired!!!! Or to target the market in which they wold like to sell~
>
> Please excuse my rant.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Jan.
>
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