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M$ has a lock on the *PC* market...not in the business *main* processing
market. that's still where they are gaining a foothold but haven't quite
made it yet. so yes, we as a community *AND* IBM *AND* BPs need to
promote the OS. with the new name IBM i, it may even be easier to do so.
CIOs and CTOs tend to enjoy adding "new" technologies to their
infrastructure...just because it's "new" and therefore *must* be
innovative and "cool". So folks let's put on our party hats and *DON'T*
mention "It's OS/400 (or i5/OS) with a new name" but rather "hey check out
this new OS...it's called IBM i".
Thanks,
Tommy Holden
From:
"Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
"Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
05/07/2008 11:39 AM
Subject:
Re: IBM investment in i
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Recently I read Tom Watson Jr's book about IBM and his dad, T J Watson.
IBM became great because T J Watson believed in sales. Everything he
and therefore IBM did was driven by a desire for sales. Today's IBM is
a far cry from what T J demanded.
profits are sky high at IBM. I think they figure that operating
systems and run time frameworks are not as profitable as middleware
and end user applications. They also dont want to compete where
Microsoft is strongest - operating systems, frameworks, languages.
-Steve
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