RE: How do we fix IBM's "eServer" mentality?

["Westdorp, Tom" <Tom.Westdorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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something along the lines of "it's not just an eServer, it's the iSeries
stupid"?
along the lines of the effective "it's the economy stupid" from the Carville
war room.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 12:25 PM
To: rpgiv@yahoogroups.com; rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: How do we fix IBM's "eServer" mentality?


With COMMON approaching in two month (www.common.org) we need to discuss
the eServer situation and the downfall of the iSeries/AS/400 systems.

Back in the 1980s a grass roots group of us decided IBM's end-all be-all
"SAA" sucked.
We helped kill SAA.

In my view, we need to declare war on the "eServer" campaign, or start
learning UNIX and Windows NT/2000 Server stuff.

I designed a button back in the 1980s with the acronym "SAA" on it, with
a red circle with a slash through it. "No SAA" it sad iconically.

I think we need a similar button for the eServer campaign. By making SAA
a bad word, we eventually got IBM to drop that campaign. Therefore, I
think the only way to make IBM see the light is by repeating that
technique today. Let's make "eServer" a bad word.


What do you all think? If you all think eServer is a good idea, then
I'll shut up right now.
If I don't hear any comments one way or the other, I'll shut up right
now.

Let me know what we need to do to make iSeries a "brand" of system so
that the kid in college knows its name.

Bob

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