RE: IBM a personal comment

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Doesn't it hurt to run after having some bourbons? I would think one
would fall down. :)


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: IBM a personal comment
> From: "Jack Derham" <derhamj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, February 02, 2005 11:59 am
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I agree that there are times that I want hang up my running shoes and then I
> have another Markers Mark and pick up my shoes and go out and run some more.
> At my age just being in the battle is most of the fun. This mornings
> newspaper reminded me that today is the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand who
> wrote "Atlas Shrugged" way back in 1957. It impressed me when I first read
> it and many of its fictional projections have become realities so what I say
> to you is her central question: "Who is John Galt?" Don't give up the fight.
> 
> 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 10:31 AM
> To: Midrange Mailing LIst (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: IBM a personal comment
> 
>       Jack, thank you for your enthusiasm, but I really think it's
> somewhat mis-placed.
>       Most of us poor IT workers, and businesses specializing in the IBM
> mid range field are generally too tired when 
>       we get home, to go out and 'volunteer' our time to teach the
> uneducated masses.
> 
>       If in fact, IBM is intrinsically what you say they are :
>       "a bunch of haughty big elephants eating tall grass", then I suspect
> the Mid range 
>       division of IBM is as doomed as their pc business.
>       
>       The business of marketing, training, and helping to educate people
> in this highly 
>       competitive computer world of ours, rests to a large degree on the
> people who 
>       design and sell the software, and the educational institutions that
> also profit from
>       that software.
>       IMHO, this important responsibility of their business is being
> overlooked. If the reason 
>       they give is non profitability, then they are very short sighted.
>       
>       Of course, in the business world, we too have a responsibility to
> train and educate
>       the business community that uses the business systems we design and
> build for them,
>       but we have to know where to draw the line.
>       
>       If you burn out, trying to fill a void they created, then your time
> is free.
> Ken
>       
> 
> 
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