Ditto! Pete, you beat me to the opinion. I, like many others have been so
critical of the lack of marketing from Big Blue regarding our SPECIFIC
midrange preference. I for one, am thrilled that more than 1 person in 1
location heard the spots. This flies in the face of the 'Lets advertise a
big 1 page ad in the local newspaper where COMMON is right now' mentality.
I think this is a good thing and I hope it continues.
Larry
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Massiello
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 12:07 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: IBM i advertising!!!
Do you think the marketing list server (for Marketing professionals) is
discussing if their new computer to run the company on is going to have SAS
or SCSI drives? Or if they should get the new 12X loop or stick with the
HSL-2 loop technology? We finally hear some advertizing about i and we
question if it's the right station, and right media, etc. While IBM hasn't
done a good job marketing this machine over the last 20 years, perhaps it
could be the start of what we will see as the 20th birthday of our AS/400
happens in just over a month.
Let's be happy we are hearing commercials about i at all. Perhaps someone
at IBM realized that this is the best middleware that they have, and it's
time to promote it? Perhaps the new guys at Power Systems see this OS as
something they wish they could be when AIX grows up ;) Whatever the reason,
I would think that IBM would not be promoting an OS they were moth-balling
(but this is IBM, so you never know).
If anyone finds the radio ads on the internet, please post a link to them as
I am sure a lot of us would like to hear them.
Pete Massiello
iTech Solutions
http://www.itechsol.com
midrange.com
