Re: IBM needs more than cool tattoos, say users

...upharson!
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message: 9
date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:14:59 -0500 (EST)
from: Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: IBM needs more than cool tattoos, say
users



Frankly, I'm not going through all the button clicking
to sign up again
just so that I can reply to Search's article...

BUT, here's my reply.  :

ONCE AGAIN, unless and until IBM puts OS/400 marketing
on the same par 
as
we saw with the linux add in the superbowl, unless and
until IBM put
OS/400 marketing on the same par as you see for all
the Thinkpads,
xSeries/Intel boxes, Unix/AIX boxes.....it won't be
taken seriousely
because it once again, won't reach the target market
that it needs
to...that being primarily those that DO NOT USE THE
OS/400 TODAY.

All this choir preaching does not advance the systems
outside of the 
box
of current user base.

Face it, this is all just to give folks something to
rah-rah about that
ALREADY HAVE THE BOX....

I think Malcolm is doing a heckuva good job with what
he's allowed to 
do.
Too bad he's not evidently given the same playing
field and resources 
as
the unix, windoze and most lately, linux, systems.... 
That in itself
doesn't give me any warm fuzzies of confidence.

Pity, isnt' it, that the 2nd highest recognized brand
that IBM has
(AS/400) is being hidden so well by IBM?

What was that writing I saw on the wall....mene mene
tekel...?  :)

And, yes, I intentionally said OS/400, and not AS/400
or iSeries....

Don in DC




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