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

["Bob Cozzi \(RPGIV\)" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

"It's an iSeries, stupid!"

How's that?



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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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