Re: iSeries revenue plummets

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Nov 20, 2007 7:50 AM,  <fbocch2595@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> What are the aspects of the iSeries that make it the best business machine?? Are those things enough to keep companies buying it in numbers that will keep the platform alive??
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> Sad to say - They deserve to plummet.
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> When is the last time you saw any advertising outside of a technical
> communication about the I-series (as/400)?  TV, Super bowl, non-I-series
> magazine.
> I have I-series clients that receive no mail, calls, or anything  about
> I-series.  I personally think that the switch years ago from IBM  sales reps to
> business partners was a cost reduction technique that will  ultimately spell the
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> death of the I-series. Perhaps they don't have the  financial where-with-all to
> mass-market.  It's a shame that the "greatest"  business computer will be
> extinct without someone selling it.  IBM sure  isn't.
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