Re: IBM Toast

["Alan Cassidy" <acassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Amen, you can't follow the latest fad or buzzword.

Also, it was a good point how, again, things aren't always as they appear in
the corporate world.(Though again, there are strong counterpoints, and he is
a PC-guy).

He left out anything about technology, patents, etc. IBM, after all, makes a
lot of hardware and licenses more to everybody else, no?

--Alan





----- Original Message -----
From: "Norm Dennis" <midrange@iinet.net.au>
To: <midrange-nontech@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: IBM Toast


> Well said Jeff, I agree entirely. (You also left off .net)
> Not to mention too much change too soon.
> By the time any technology hits the floor it's obsolete.
> Fads.
> It seems like no time to develop anything before another new technology
hits the
> floor.
>
> Also, businesses these days trying to satisfy the investor dollar with
bigger
> profits from less expense, great if you can do it but do you really want
to do
> it at the expense of the path that has gotten the business where it is.
>
> No recognition of the fact that "the tighter the squeeze the quicker the
> strangulation".
> Hey, there's one to pass on to your Financial Controller, maybe even the
G8.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@DILGARDFOODS.COM>
> To: <midrange-nontech@midrange.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:30 AM
> Subject: Re: IBM Toast
>
>
> Jeff Crosby wrote:
>
> > I have to admit, though, that I'm getting jaded with the whole computer
> > scene these days.  I've said it before and I'll say it again.  Everybody
> > seems like lemmings, jumping on the latest bandwagon, be it C/S, java,
> > Windows, the web, Websphere, Notes, etc. with little, it seems, interest
> > in whether it does anything for their business.  The term I used before
> > was "thrashing".
>
> Oh, I forgot UNIX and Linux.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> This is the Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries
(Midrange-NonTech) mailing list
> To post a message email: Midrange-NonTech@midrange.com
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
> visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-nontech
> or email: Midrange-NonTech-request@midrange.com
> Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
> at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-nontech.
>
>