RE: IBM dumb move #3,912,347

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

At 11:31 AM 09/07/1999 -0500, you wrote:

You can't.  IBM doesn't care about the sat. level of the users, they only 
care about minimizing expenses, to raise profit, to raise the god damned 
#$%@ing stock price.

The day Lou quite, sell your stock, and sell it short.

Al


>Cute ranting, but I repeat my question.  How do we get this changed?
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>dbale@genfast.com on 09/02/99 06:15:32 PM
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>Rob,
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> >How do we get this changed?  I would like the softcopy,
> >and the online manual.  I don't even mind if IBM makes a
> >buck by selling the book to dinosaur's.
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>I ranted about this a few weeks ago on this list...
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>--- Begin rant ---
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>Hey, I really don't like the vibes I'm getting from this list about IBM doing
>away with the softcopy CD-rom in favor of web access.  Is it true?  I know 
>we've
>got the softcopy CD-rom for V4R2, our current release.
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>Sure, softcopy plus the "library reader" were never a great documentation 
>team,
>but it sure beats the hell out of having to go to the web everytime I need to
>look up something.  Besides, from what I'm hearing here, IBM's web library may
>be in worse shape than the softcopy.
>
> From my experience working as a consultant and dealing with more than a few
>shops, I can safely say that the majority of programmers do not have web 
>access
>at their desk.  They are either using dumb tubes or are using a PC without any
>internet access.  The environments using PCs that I've been in are usually
>networked and the softcopy is either on a network cd-rom drive or the contents
>are dumped to a network hard drive.
>
>What does it cost IBM to produce these softcopy CD-roms?  Maybe a dime apiece?
>
>This is an issue I'd be willing to make a _lot_ of noise about.  Or am I 
>jumping
>the gun here?
>
>- Dan "squeaky wheel" Bale
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