Re: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul

Guess it's just different markets. Domino is a non-starter around
here...and I don't know anyone that uses Domino on iSeries.

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:09:17 -0500, rob@xxxxxxxxx said:
> Domino actually sold iSeries.  Local BP's were actually stumbling into 
> shops that had iSeries only to run Domino.  IBM did an extensive
> marketing 
> campaign at one LotusSphere for the iSeries.  Lines of hordes of people
> to 
> their display were actually blocking the displays to other hardware 
> vendors.  Granted, getting a chance to win a hot sports car versus a DVD 
> player or a hunk of foam had a lot to do with it.  But the marketing 
> worked.
> 
> We bought extra iSeries's to run Domino only applications.
> 
> I wonder how many people went out and bought the iSeries solely because
> it 
> ran OV/400?
> 
> I liked the OV/400 word processor.  And I loved IBM Support Line people's 
> support of it!  And I did get some users to use the calendaring, etc. 
> But 
> people do like their GUI.
> 
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> Because they wanted to move people to Domino so they could make more
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> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:25:23 -0400, "Pat Barber"
> <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > This whole OV/400 thing just makes me crazy. First
> > they make HUGE announcements that it's gonna die,
> > and it doesn't die, then they announce even more
> > stuff and it doesn't die, and now here we are four
> > or five years later, and it still works.
> > 
> > I don't think I will ever understand why they didn't
> > simply leave wrkdoc and prtdoc alone. This was done
> > with other older software such as BGU, which works
> > just fine to this very day.
> > 
> > Pete Helgren wrote:
> > 
> > > Pat,
> > > 
> > > We took the existing 720 to V5R3M0 and then did a Save option 21 and a
> > > restore to both i5/OS partitions (well, it was a little more complex 
> but
> > > basically that was it).  It works fine.  They primarily use it for 
> mail
> > > merges to create mailing labels and letters.  Don't think anyone uses 
> it for
> > > daily letter writing  :)
> > 
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