Re: Dean Asmussen - tribute - [Fwd: 1998 Predictions]

I agree, he'll be missed!

http://www.midrange.com/imho/dean/200201.htm


Bill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Mahadevan" <mahadevan@xxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 2:00 PM
Subject: Dean Asmussen - tribute - [Fwd: 1998 Predictions]


>   Folks:
> 
> I am very sorry to hear the passing away of Dean Asmussen.  Dean was a 
> wonderful guy in this list ever since David Gibbs started it and helped 
> run the list during David's vacations.  As most of us long timers in the 
> list know, that he was a pretty fair guy and spoke in a measured and 
> careful tone.  His absence will be sorely missed by me and others.  
> 
> Here is one of his prediction messages and you can see his wisdom in the 
> predictions.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 1998 Predictions
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 21:24:29 EST
> From: DAsmussen <DAsmussen@xxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> Hello All!
> 
> As usual, these predictions are meant to be fun rather than prescient, so
> don't stake your portfolio on them (regardless of the outcome of last year's
> flock)!
> 
> 1.  AS/400 sales will remain flat, due in equal parts to most companys' focus
> on the Y2K issue rather than technology enhancements, and IBM's _IDIOTIC_
> pricing decision for V4 which has alienated the group that would have been
> "first in line" with JAVA solutions for the AS/400.
> 
> 2.  Network station sales will remain flat as well, precluding an announcement
> from IBM that allows users to run PC-based applications without the expensive
> NT server requirements.  The hardware has fallen in price, so where is the
> software?
> 
> 3.  Lou G will resign as head of IBM, seeking "new opportunities".  Real
> reason?  He's made all of the management changes he can at IBM, and will leave
> to allow the company to "sink or swim" based upon its own technology and a new
> leader that will pursue that focus.
> 
> 4.  "Native Notes" will fail at inception, because nobody has time to
> implement it _AND_ Y2K compliant software.  Should have come out with it last
> year...
> 
> 5.  IBM will announce several hardware platforms to "fill the gaps" in its
> current product lines, most of which will be met with a "big yawn" due to the
> above stated pre-occupations with Y2K over hardware.
> 
> 6.  JAVA/400 will gain a real foothold over other languages/400 because
> vendors that are already Y2K compliant will focus their efforts there.
> Vendors that were averse to converting their software to C++ for the (proper)
> reason that UNIX wasn't as "OPEN" as most would have you believe will begin to
> port to JAVA.
> 
> 7.  The US Justice Department will _FINALLY_ deliver Microsoft its come-
> uppance -- have you _seen_ the c###, uh stuff, that MS tried to pull?
> 
> 8.  OS/2 will finally bite the dust, although undeservedly.  IBM's
> incompetence, rather than OS/2's relative value, will finish it off.  The
> revenue stream is just too small for the effort required by the manufacturer
> to "keep it current".
> 
> 9.  Y2K will have all of us busy for the next four years, at least.
> 
> 10.  As with last year, we'll all meet here next year and be equally as wrong.
> If we meet last year's averages, that wouldn't be a bad thing, would it?
> 
> Regards!
> 
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-Mail:  DAsmussen@xxxxxxx
> 
> "The saints are the sinners who keep on trying." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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> Thank You
> Regards.
> Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@xxxxxxxx
> 1:34 PM, Friday, 16 May 2003 
> 
> 
> 
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