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

[Dean Bathke <dbathke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LOL, Im with ya Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) [SMTP:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:40 PM
> To:   rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: How do we fix IBM's "eServer" mentality?
>
> "It's an iSeries, stupid!"
>
> How's that?
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
> On
> > Behalf Of Westdorp, Tom
> > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:33 PM
> > To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: How do we fix IBM's "eServer" mentality?
> >
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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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