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

Maybe you didnt get anything because...you have
already been assimilated. You are now Borg. ;o)

--- Chuck Lewis <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The company I work for advertised the giveaway of a
> brand new Harley at a
> trade show last year and did indeed give it away, no
> strings attached !
> 
> And hey, we are a Quadrant user and I didn't get
> ANYTHING from them ! (?)
> 
> Chuck
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:28 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: 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 
> 
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