RE: IBM a personal comment -- MIDRANGE-L

My good friend, do not expect IBM to do anything about it until hell freezes
over and then they will probably have a meeting about it. They have been,
are and will be in the future a bunch of haughty big elephants eating tall
grass while the jungle is on fire all around them. They thought patterns
are just bottom line oriented and although they have very brilliant spots of
intelligence burning in their otherwise dusky camp they can't seem to come
to point of taking of there jackets and really getting into the fight.

You and I and thousands of other nobody contractors and professionals who
really know how good the system is must be come the Don Quixote warriors. We
did it before for the s/38 when IBM management gave the sales directive for
the machine to the mainframe salesmen when they, without plan dissolved the
GMD division. We need to break up the nest of vipers that can themselves
Business Partners who are also in conjunction with IBM strictly out to sell
equipment with out regards to its quality and go out and sell it ourselves.
We are going to have to become our own marketing force. We have done it and
we can do it.

We can preach the iSeries values. We can show how powerful its RDB really is
and that Oracle is just starting to catch up. We can volunteer to teach the
courses at the colleges and Universities. We can speak at user group
meetings. We can work hard to learn the new things like .NET so we can be
able to show their real weaknesses in their language.

Its our business and we have to fight to protect it not only from it true
enemies but also from some of its supposed "friends."

Jack Derham
Direct Systems, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shields, Ken
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:43 AM
To: Midrange Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: RE: IBM a personal comment

Thanks folks.
                So far I've got back quite a few replies, and they all point
to the fact that IBM's ISeries, does not have good exposure,
requires a great deal of specialist setup, and $, and quite a few of you
have had bad experience with the platform in different areas
                I've worked in the midrange world for many moons, and
although the platform is solid, IMHO , it has to 'open' up 
much further.
                We're working and living in a world where an entire
development world can be downloaded to your desktop for free..
(a good example is Java 2) etc...and in order to do any development in the
ISeries world ,you have to spend a lot of money to 
acquire a machine, and then , acquire all the licensing for the software,
anon anon..

                There is general agreement, that exposure in Colleges and
Universities is insufficiently supported by that 
division of IBM, and as a footnote, IBM is getting their socks knocked off
in this very important arena.

                Question now is, will they do anything about it?
  

Ken Shields
PPG Canada Inc
Ph: 905 725 1144 (326)
Fx: 905 433 8712


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