Re: IBM pulls AS/400 specific ad campaign

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 03:23 PM 6/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Al Barsa Wrote:
>
>Hi,
>I have received a lot of private mail since last week's post about IBM
>pulling all of the AS/400 specific advertising and moving these dollars
>into Server Brand advertising.
>IBM executives who have been asked about this are denying the it.  (This is
>referred to as the "Kremlin Airbrush Technique".)  If you find an IBM exec
>who denies this, ask them to bet money on the fact (*LOTS).
>I just wanted to restate that my sources here are impeccable.  I don't know
>who made this decision, but as I said last week, he/she must have an IQ so
>low that when you square it, you get a lower number.
>Funny, I thought Lou was compensated on overall profit and stock price.
>Al
>**Endquote**
>
>Al,  We had much the same type of briefing and I will confirm what you are
>saying as true, from a completely different source.  Unfortunately, with SP
>sales starting to look good, we may be in for a long advertising and
>marketing dry spell.
>
>Jim Oberholtzer

How do you spell "brain dead"?

Al




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