RE: Cheaper Servers?

["Shields, Ken" <kenshields@xxxxxxx>]

Jeff
        Do you think IBM is still suffering from their 50's and 60's malaise?
        I'm amazed so few people of importance at IBM aren't listening.
        Is this denial, or just plain politics..?
Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Bull [mailto:Jeff.Bull@ITM-group.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 10:40 AM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Cheaper Servers?


... imagine an average laptop computer ... how many times more powerful and
capacious than many of the AS/400 models of old.
... now imagine all those AS/400 / iSeries product salesmen in IBM, BPs,
trying to compete with the Unix and MS based salesmen; ok, which group can
actually demonstrate their products, and with more ease ... and in the
prospects own office?

OS/400 on a laptop would be an incredible marketing tool, every iSeries
salesperson would want one, need one.  It would put them on a level playing
field with those other application vendors.  Even if IBM didn't directly
make a profit from a laptop
iSeries, the increase in sales of larger systems would surely and adequately
compensate.

How many iSeries based home workers are there out in the world?  IBM, give
us a CHEAP and practical laptop / single-user desktop version of OS/400 - if
there is no demand, create one.  Televisions, microwave ovens, mobile
phones, home computers - all inventions that most people don't really need,
but they nearly all have them.

This is another example of IBM falling out of touch with the needs and
desires of their customers.

Jeff Bull

-----Original Message-----
From: jpcarr@tredegar.com [mailto:jpcarr@tredegar.com]
Sent: 09 April 2002 03:06
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Cheaper Servers?



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