Re: Another Company INVESTS in their AS/400 / iSeries -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Upgrades are great, but does anyone have any information about new
installs or competitive replacements? When we see an iSeries replaced,
that's a new (read lifeblood) sale for some other company. Upgrades
make IBM money, and make BPs money, and that's all good. But I don't
know how much upgrades really help the long term viability of the
platform.

We've had three new-new customers in 2007, and two so far in 2008.

But they didn't move to an IBM i - they moved from one ERP package to
another (ours, specifically).
We do not market our Software to specifically run on the IBM i -
instead we just market our software and sell the corresponding
hardware. This has worked lots better than the hardware centric
approach.

Nobody wants to buy a platform they never heard about, isn't marketed
anywhere, and isn't used anywhere else (visibly).

Now, our software package is good and modern, something that can't be
said for a lot of IBM i centric software that's available today.

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