Re: AS/400......IBM i

Tommy,

I'm not so sure you should be too quick to judge
Steve's comment. While it is certainly true that Bill
Zeitler was a passionate advocate for "our" system in
the past, he does shoulder a great deal of
responsibility for the decisions that led to where "i"
is ("i" am?) today.

...Neil


--- Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

bad form Steve...

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:
"Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
"Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
05/05/2008 11:00 AM
Subject:
Re: AS/400......IBM i



On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Anne Lucas
<alucas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I learned this morning that Bill Zeitler, IBM

Senior Vice President and

Group Executive, Systems and Technology Group, is

retiring. What an

awesome legacy he leaves customers and IBMers!

Bill was always over

100% in support of the midrange customers and

COMMON!

He never lost his love for the details of how

technology works. He

always wanted to checkout the insides of the box.

When walking through

the COMMON Expo on his last visit to COMMON, he

stopped at nearly every

booth with a computer and talked "tech talk".

At the Nashville COMMON conference, he wanted a

minute by minute update

on the latest IBM announcement....what do

customers think? In the midst

of all the announcement stuff, retirement plans,

and being a very busy

IBM executive, he and his wife took the time to

attend Al Barsa's

funeral service.

It's gonna take some "big shoes" to fill his

place!

if the drastic decline in investment in IBM i is
true, then Zeitler is
responsible, no? Hopefully his replacement will
believe IBM should
fight toe to toe against MSFT for dominance in the
operating system
and runtime framework space.

-Steve

Neil Palmer, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

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