RE: IBM a personal comment

Yeah,  Bill Zeitler or Sam P.  They're the ones that are making the real
decisions...



On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> At COMMON in Chicago, our LUG will be hosting a lug meeting on Monday
> evening. We are trying to get someone from IBM to do a presentation along
> the lines of how one can justify keeping an iSeries to the 30-something
> MBA's who seem to be making the decisions to move away from the platform.
> Ian Jarman is one possible speaker. Does anyone have another possibility
> they can suggest?
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> Paul Nelson
> Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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> Just a few comments to add...
>
> LUGs for educattion ? Our group here in northwest Ohio is nearly dead, and
>
> it's not due to a lack of education offerings. We've offered web-ex's,
> teleconferences with IBM'rs direct from Rochester. We've done a lot of
> ILE, SQL, & IFS with Common speakers and business partners. We partner
> with SE Mich and Indiana (Detroit and Fort Wayne) Lugs to share resouces.
> (The local community college IS teaching WDSCi and free-form RPG.) The
> market is shrinking due to buyouts and attrition. The new businesses (read
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> non-midrage shops) don't know about iSeries because IBM doesn't see profit
>
> in selling one box (iSeries) vs selling hundreds of servers (pc's, unix,
> linux) and naturally IBM will advertise the things they can sell the most
> of.
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> In Toronto at the past Common Soundoff session, my wife told the IBM'rs
> present, directly, that us users and supporter's who try to market the
> iSeries to non-belivers, that is doesn't work because the people we preach
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> to, don't want to hear it from us because they don't hear it from IBM.
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> The platform is dying. I see my future in MYSQL, PHP and HTML.
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> Regards, Jerry
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> Gerald Kern
> IBM Certified AS/400 RPG IV Developer & RPG IV Programmer
> MIS Project Leader, Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
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