RE: Moving forward or backward...

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You shoulda heard the support line customer sat manager when I told her that
IBM was losing business because the company is now being run by wet behind
the ears MBA's who can't wipe their butts without a mouse in their hand, and
that they manage on a quarter by quarter basis instead of a five year plan.

She sounded like Obama without his teleprompter. Um, ah, I, I, uh, uh.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:17 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Moving forward or backward...

Another fix - make that 3 months - and IBM (not i) know about doing that 
with their bottom line and hiring and firing practices. 3-month plans 
make for difficult project management!!

</rant>

Paul Nelson wrote:
> << The whole IT industry is in a state of "jump ship to whatever
> technologies give me the most ROI in the next 3 years">>
>
> Fixed it for you:
>
> The whole IT industry is in a state of "jump ship to whatever technologies
> give me the most ROI in the next 3 quarters"
>
> Paul Nelson
> Office 512-392-2577
> Cell 708-670-6978
> nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 7:07 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Moving forward or backward...
>
> Very interesting.
>
> Check out this article also:   *http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33584*
>
> Note that in it Microsoft is *attempting* to create a stateful programming
> environment on the server.
>
> I just wrote an article for IBMSystemsMag that calls out the fact that
> Microsoft is just learning about these benefits and is using them as
selling
> points, when IBM i has had them for decades but does zero advertising for
> the features (that are time tested btw!).
>
> ... and all the while IBM continues to pursue open source and loosely
couple
> technologies as the "way of the future" when they could just enhance some
of
> the stuff they *fully own* to completely wipe out most all other servers
and
> their capabilities.  And make A LOT of money while doing it.  The whole IT
> industry is in a state of "jump ship to whatever technologies give me the
> most ROI in the next 3 years" mode and IBM should capitalize on that with
> IBMi.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
> http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/