Re: Prometheus

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>]

....another IBM attempt at impotent rhetoric?  Seems like they've really 
mastered that of late...

Neil, you been smoking something you shouldn't have been???? :) :)

Don in DC



At 10:00 PM 5/29/2006 -0400, you wrote:
> Has anyone heard about this Prometheus Project at IBM?
>  Some sort of
> secret
> project to restore the System i to the greatness it
> deserves.  Yes I
> know
> they've been talking about that for ages, but it looks
> like there's now
> actually a plan in place and it might be different
> this time, they may
> well
> succeed.  One good reason for that is they MUST
> succeed as this is
> probably
> their last chance.
>
> We've all seen the years of bland, homogenized,
> boring, dull, insipid,
> irrelevant, instantly-forgettable crap they've put out
> in the past
> (well,
> apart from the one very good campaign that ran in the
> UK in 1993).
> This
> time there may actually be a plan in place to deliver
> marketing nukes
> to
> devastate the competition.  It sounds like the new
> approach will be
> very
> non-IBM.  So that means it should actually be very
> good !   ;-)
>
>
> Neil Palmer, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
>
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>
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