Re: Any comments on Fontecchio's blog?

Steve,

Programmers asking questions on Midrange-L tend to be the ones already on
Midrange-L - they just ask more questions, or engage in ridiculous name
debates. Reaching new i5/OS resources on midrange-L does not correspond to a
growth in business. Moot point 1.

We sell lots of small 515 servers where there is no IT staff at all. No net
new i5/OS employment does not equate to a growth in business. Moot point 2.

User group attendance has reduced across the entire IT industry. How do you
equate that to any growth in business? Moot point 3.

Your points have no logic to them. Choose a better equation, or go talk with
Booth - he understands circular and flawed logic.

Trevor


On 3/7/08 2:19 PM, "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Booth,

Where are you being told that IBM is not selling anything?

Read some of Mark Shearer's words here:
http://blogs.systeminetwork.com/isnblogs/maxedout/

"In my first two and half years in System i, I got an awful lot of
feedback
from clients that they wanted to pay for what they use, that they wanted
us
to improve the price-to-value ratio . . . and we relaunched our entire
entry-level product line back in April -- that ultimately drove more than
25
percent volume growth last year in System i."

would it follow that there has been a 25% increase in programmers asking
questions on midrange-l? a 25% increase in system i5 employment across the
board, an equivalent increase in attendance at user's groups and COMMON
conferences?

-Steve