RE: Tipton's COMMON opening speech

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahem!  Watch where you go with rotary-engined sports machines!  Bought an
'84 RX-7 new; was the best car I ever owned.  Didn't sell it until ten years
later, when child #3 necessitated something more family-like.

RX-7 owners can be compared to AS/400 zealots.  They love their car /
platform with a passion.  Of course, Mazda don't make the RX-7 anymore...
:(
(Geez, where's the IBM analogy there?)

Oh, and this is from a guy who lives in the Detroit area and, of all his
working relatives at the time, 80% of whom worked for one of the Big 3.  You
_had_ to be passionate to buy a Japanese car.  And a little crazy.

- Dan Bale

-----Original Message-----
From: Schenck, Don [mailto:Don.Schenck@WL.com]
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:00 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Tipton's COMMON opening speech


This from a guy who drove a ROTARY-engined car.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shaw, David [mailto:dshaw@spartan.com]
Sent: March 20, 2000 1:49 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Tipton's COMMON opening speech


You wanna know the scary part?  The longer you know him, the more sense he
makes. <grin>

I've known him long enough that I sometimes forget he's crazy (never for
very
long, though ;).  And he's certainly correct this time!

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
> 
> Somebody call the Airforce and the the Project Blue Book team 
> out here,
> the strangest thing has just happened! I agree with Don!
> 
> "Schenck, Don" wrote:
> > 
> > Read or listen to Tom Peters.
> > 
> > Truly GREAT stuff is done by wacky and passionate people.
> > 
> > ANYTHING great is done by "crazy" people. From Martin 
> Luther to Martin
> > Luther King to Steve Jobs to Lance Armstrong.
> > 
> > That makes ME feel great, because I'm crazy and don't know 
> my limitations
> > (well ... besides a 300-lb bench press).
> > 
> > Evangelists need to RUN the AS/400 team, from design to 
> construction to
> > marketing to support. Anything less will result in ... well 
> ... "Magic Box"
> > and "I AM"-type stuff.
> > 
> > How about THIS:
> > 
> > A parody of the famous "1984" ad:
> > 
> > People are sitting in a huge room, but instead of just 
> watching a huge
> > screen, they all have screens in front of them and their 
> all surfing the
> > web.
> > 
> > The big screen shows an AS/400, sitting there running, with 
> a bunch of URL's
> > flying by to symbolize the web activity.
> > 
> > A hacker wearing Microsoft's colors comes running into the 
> room and tosses a
> > big hammer toward the screen (like the 1984 ad).
> > 
> > It bounces off!
> > 
> > VOICEOVER: AS/400; the most reliable web server on the planet.
> > 
> > -- Don

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