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  3. September 2005

Re: COMMON Update... - the Porsche give-away?

Anyone remember how the other vendors were upset when IBM gave away a car 
at LotusSphere years ago at their AS/400 booth?  Crowds packed around the 
booth.  The lines literally cut off access to the other hardware vendor 
booths.  Grievances filed from these other vendors, etc.  (But at least 
they did give the car away.)  The advertising at LotusSphere, airports, 
etc at that time was intense for the AS/400.  They sold AS/400's to run 
Domino like hotcakes.  Local IBM sales rep (remember them?) said that he 
was walking into accounts that he didn't even know had AS/400's because 
Domino was pushing iron so fast.

Lotus Notes advertising was so intense that my teenage daughter was 
literally awestruck that I used Notes.

Rob Berendt

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