Re: Predictions, 1998 -- MIDRANGE-L

> Subj:  Re: Predictions, 1998
>  Date:        97-12-22 08:21:40 EST
>  From:        qappdsn@ibm.net (James W. Kilgore)
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>  To:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>  
>  We have kicked around some ideas about the upcoming year and have some 
>  good and bad feelings about what may be ahead.
>  
>  We can't speak for the in-house staff since that's not our place in the
world, but
>  we can echo some of what we've heard there.
>  
>  Here's our top ten for 1998:  (now we've had a couple of rum balls before
writing
>  this so....)
>  
>  1) Early 1998 will see no real changes over the past year.  Denial of
budget
>  increases for Y2K projects.  Few truly believe that the 486/66 bought in
1990 will
>  be the weak link that brings down a egocentric enterprise. Never mind that
an
>  amortized cost of investment amounts to $<3 per month!  And to replace it
and 
>  run it for the same time period would be $<1.  Someone is focused on
current 
> quarter
>  returns and the Y2K investment isn't going to happen on their clock.  They
weren't
>  here when the current situation was created so they won't pay to fix it.
The
>  swine!
>  
>  2) IBM will continue to create superior products that no one but the
Fortune 500
>  (and technocrats) know about.  IBM is too busy selling mainframes to bother
with
>  an overlapping product like the AS/400.  It's still viewed as a
"departmental"
>  processor.
>  
>  3) We (those that support the AS/400) will survive, adapt, grow and prove
(by
>  example) that Darwin was right.
>  
>  4) Some will make money from writing about what is occurring/ could
occur/should
>  occur/ would have occurred/ might have occurred/ you're afraid will
occur/and the
>  buyers like a good story teller then they go back to work.  (Others will
publish
>  technical works that get printed the day before a new release is announced
so 
>  what they have to say doesn't mean squat)
>  
>  5) Rock star marries super model.
>  
>  6) Child actor has drug problem.
>  
>  7) Elvis is sighted in a remote town buying sunglasses.
>  
>  8) A Holy image appears in a mold pattern behind a refrigerator.
>  
>  9) The government (you pick 'em: federal, state, local) passes some really,
>  really, stupid law concerning computers, privacy, copyright, access, etc.
that
>  makes you want to cancel your newspaper subscription and vote for Pat
Paulson
>  because he's just about as dumb but at least he has a sense of humor about
it.
>  
>  10) The sun comes up and we all get back to work at doing what we love the
>  most....solving problems...wait a minute...we were doing that when the sun
went
>  down...darn we missed the sun again today! ;-)
>  
>  
>  Peace and Happy Holidays to all.
>  
>  
>  P.S. Darn good rum balls!
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