RE: AS/6000

[Colin Williams <Williamsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you saying that your company has made more money because of an
ecommmerce web site than they would have made anyway.
To me ecommerce/internet only offers one new thing to mail order
companies, that the catalogue/brochure is online. Apart from that, and
the collection of customer information, does it really offer anything
new over  telephone ordering/mail order?

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Fritz [mailto:JFritz@sharperimage.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 4:47 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: AS/6000


I would suggest that my employer (shameless plug) and other 
catalogers who
have web sites have made money taking orders on the internet 
and will make
more.  Companies in the mail order business already have most of the
infrastructure required for doing business on the internet.  It's just
another way of taking orders.

BTW, we're not planning on dumping our AS/400.  We use it to process and
fulfil the orders, not to mention a few other little things 
necessary to run
the business.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Barber [mailto:MBOCEANSIDE@postoffice.worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 11:33 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: AS/6000
> 
> 


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> What was the last company you heard of that made "1" dime on 
> E-commerce
> ??
> 
> Call State Farm,Allstate,Farmers Insurance companies and ask them when
> they
> plan on changing their thousands of AS/400's to a more hip 
> machine with
> snazzy applications that their people will like better.
> 
> Try to keep things in perspective and you'll be fine.
> 
> Just my grumpy opinion.
> 
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