RE: More anti-midrange propaganda -- MIDRANGE-L

In spite of what IBM(Al Zollar) says about iSeries
marketing.  I think that money would be well spent on
iSeries TV marketing.  To get the word out to the
general public about the iSeries would enable
Directors, managers & CIO's to recommend the iSeries
without embarrassment.

At our school district 3 years ago, we took to the
Board our request to purchase our iSeries (before I
got here they were leasing space on another AS400). 
The response from a couple of board members was 'Isn't
the AS400 an outdated machine'.  I wasn't there to
defend it, but the answer given was "we need it to run
our Student System & JD Edwards".  If the board
members had been seeing the new iSeries ads on TV that
we have been coming up with, the board member would
have instead said, "Oh yeah, the iSeries, I've been
hearing a lot about it....."

Don McIntyre
--- Booth Martin <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I love it!  I'd add one twist of irony maybe?
> 
> Instead of the logo I'd pan down the hall to their
> data center and zoom in
> on their iSeries in the back of the room.   Maybe
> the nerdy guy would be
> saying something like "This is what we run on now. 
> None of those other
> solutions *pointing to the racks in the front of the
> room* have ever given
> us what we need." " Wanna see Linux in a production
> environment?"  
>  
> Maybe he could walk past a 20-something whiz kid in
> the hall picking up
> spilled nickles. 
>  
>
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>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:27:21 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: More anti-midrange propaganda
>  
> Another campaign that I would like to see would be:
>  
> The familiar 'pixie dust' conference room where
> everyone is discussing their needs for the latest
> computing marvel. A new computer that is virus free,
> no down time, runs multiple operating environments,
> will accomodate the latest and most modern computer
> languages, intergrate with all of their other
> systems,
> yada yada yada. Then one of the nerdy looking
> conference attendees pipes in and says, "Hold it,
> there is already a system that does all of
> this....then it flashes to a screen displaying the
> iSeries against a blank background and displays
> <LOGO>IBM eseries</Logo> iSeries system.
>  
> Don
> --- Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ah hah! A new campaign!
> >
> >
> > A burglar climbing out of an office through a
> > shattered window, carrying
> > off a sackful of "corporate data", leaving the
> > office in complete
> > shambles. The tagline?
> >
> > "Who's coming through YOUR Windows?"
> >
> > "iSeries - no viruses, no problems."
> >
> >
> > But IBM would is about as likely to do this as the
> > Cubs are to win the
> > Series. <grin>
> >
> > Joe
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