Re: The Future of the AS/400 (was Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????)

>> From: "R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@attglobal.net>
>> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
>> Subject: Re: The Future of the AS/400 (was Re: Developer Lease to
1.75%????)
>> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:13:38 -0400

>> rumors are fun I guess..... but....

>> well.... ok, IBM imploded in the 70's. And, apparently, instead of
becoming
>> a white dwarf, shining at least a little, they became a black hole,
>> especially in marketing.

>> now back to rumors.... hey, anyone know who's gonna buy Oracle? (and I
mean
>> the company, not the software.)  <VBG>

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Barsa" <barsa@barsaconsulting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 5:49 PM
> I recently heard one industry executive characterize Sun as "imploding".


Based on their marketing tactics, I see Sun & Oracle as probably the most
desperate souls of the IT industry. Their continuous FUD attacks are pretty
pathetic. It appears of course that Microsoft is in that fray as well, with
their various FUD broadcasts on Linux.

In my view, IBM hasn't gotten to that point where everything is negative.
At the moment they still show the real benefits of their "stuff" and do the
competitive comparision where they need to. I would personally rather IBM
not do quite as much marketing as we would like, then resort to a line of
purely negative marketing.

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