Re: The One Percent Club

Maybe the fact a lot of banks use the System i is a bad thing.

After all, there were a h**l of a lot of banks running OS/2 and look what IBM 
did to that.   ;-)


Neil Palmer, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada 
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Subject: RE: The One Percent Club

This is interesting from that interview,

"It's good because the System i customers can talk to the others about what 
they are doing. There are more banks in the world using System i than any other 
system. That's more than 16,000 banks that use our system. These are individual 
entities, not a total that includes each bank's branch locations. There are 
some absolutely huge banks using System i. 

When I am in Asia, talking with these bankers, they are talking in terms of 
having 100 billion accounts and growing to between 150 and 200 billion 
accounts. It's mind-boggling."

So with that in mind, and all that potential business, why the h**l aren't IBM 
doing more to promote the System i??

Confused of Amsterdam
 

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Onderwerp: The One Percent Club


Great read on Dr. Frank's view of things (at the moment).

As for promoting of the i campaign, how about we start by calling 
ourselves the The One Percent Club (Angus??). (Even though we may not all 
be there yet, it is definately a worthy goal for us to pursue.) It's a 
great way to promote our platform in simple terms that even those in 
business 101 can understand.

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh121806-story01.html 

Regards, Jerry

Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
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