Re: Promoting IBM i

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Trevor,
Stop it would ya? This crap is getting old, your old and your diatribes are old.  Go talk to IBM if you want it to change.

I for one and I know I'm nowhere close to beling the only one is tired of you using these lists for this junk.

When was the last time you actually helped someone solve a programmatic or system problem? Don't bother answering, I really don't give a ______


On Dec 16, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Trevor Perry wrote:

> Customers promote products when they believe in them. Word of mouth is an
> extremely effective form of marketing.
>
> Whether they ~should~ or not is not a question. If you have invested in
> this platform, and your career is better for it, then promoting it should
> be EASY. What needs to change is not the promoting of it, but the DEMOTING
> of the platform by its so-called proponents.
>
> While we continue to talk about the platform like it is something old,
> while we continue to use the platform like it is something old, while we
> continue to naysay and blame IBM for perceived woes, while we continue to
> be threatened by change, while we continue to propagate old branding,
> while we continue to complain about googling, while we continue to make
> claims that the branding is awful, while we continue to show we are simply
> ignorant about our own platform, we are simply adding to the perception
> that we have an OLD platform.
>
> Which, is simply not true with IBM i - an OS that runs on Power Systems.
>
> So, rather than ~should~, maybe it needs to be "the customers ~could~
> promote the products".
>
>
>
> On 12/16/12 4:31 AM, "D*B" <dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > ... funny world, the world of i, where the vendor creates funny names for
> > his well known products and the custumors should promote the products.
> > Could be chapture 13 of Alice in Wonderland...
> >
> > D*B
>
>
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