Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1801

Many of ya'll have been "begging":  put an ad in the Wall Street Journal
.... well we did!!  And hey!  one in computerworld!   None of us will every
be 100% happy about the advertisements ...    And ... I don't think I would
like IBM to be like Microsoft, but I won't' go there  ;}

Mike C, would like to talk with you about your parent company's perception.

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iSeries ad!

It was a tad cold of IBM to point out the trademarks of IBM and Micro$oft,
and to lump the HP (Who the ad was focused on.  It was pointing out that HP
stopped shipping the HP3000 on October 31) into "other vendors".  (You need
to read the fine print.)

Anne, the next time you are going to do something staggering, like an
iSeries advertisement, how about posting a note the day before so we can
pick up whatever newspaper it is and show it to our bosses, who have grown
to feel that the AS/400 or iSeries is irrelevant, because IBM never
mentions
it.

Al

PS:   What does a full page ad in the WSJ cost?

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC


message: 4
date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:04:36 -0500 (EST)
from: Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Wall Street Journal



Al,

if this is the one I saw yesterday, you sure it wasn't another xSeries add
that just happened to mention iSeries in it?

Uh, considering the continued barrage of VERY EFFECTIVE marketing by
Microsoft for Windows 2003, that back pager that had iseries written so
small I had to borrow the college's scanning electron microscope to see
it is just a poor excuse for a paultry token drop in a bucket.

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Don
It is important to understand Al's definition of ugly.  Ugly = not the way
it was before :-) Just a little ribbing Al.

There are interoperability problems with Win95/NT/ME platforms. If you have
systems running these windows platforms, you might run into problems with
those systems being able to use things like Netserver. This has become a
lot less of an issue since the pre-GA of V5R1 as people move away from
unsupported MS systems.

If you have multiple OS/400 systems they all have to be set to the same
password level if you want a high level of interoperability between them.

If you have 3rd party software or software you have built yourself that
performs authentication itself, then unless that software has been changed
to accomodate longer passwords there may be interoperability problems.

The best way to test is to leave your password composition rules the way
they are today and to set the max length to 10. Then change the password
level to 2. If you run into interoperability problems then you will be able
to switch back to 0 without forcing everyone to change their passwords.

Note that changing to level 1 or 3 will remove the copy of your password
encrypted with the windows algorithm. If you need compatibility with
windows, you probably don't want to go these levels. If you don't need
windows compatibility with your passwords then it's a good idea to pick one
of these levels after testing at level 2.

Patrick Botz




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message: 8
date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:30:29 -0500
from: "Gerald Kern" <gkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Wall Street Journal

Nope - but I did notice the back cover of this week's Computerworld
(11/10/2003).

It's an iSeries ad too....

Wow - two in one week?

Regards, Jerry

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By all accounts these are all successful campaigns - can IBM continue to
espouse the opinion that TV advertising isn't efficient?  Personally, I'm
probably already knee deep in a paradigm whereby the iSeries is considered
nonstrategic technology by our parent company.  And right now I do hold IBM
responsible for that.....


Michael Crump