Re: AS/400 Trivia... -- MIDRANGE-L



Al,

Once again, IBM is preaching to the wrong people...I frankly think that
the AS400 marketing effort is no less than a symphony of keystone cops,
conducted by Rube Goldberg, managed by Curly, Moe, Larry and some short
Monty Python wannabe...!

I would however, add 2 items to your list:

...has the lowest product recognition of almost any IBM product by a
non-IBM user due to an almost total lack of marketing presence for the
brand.

...has less TV time than Thinkpads which are advertising product that can
ship, which IBM DOES NOT EVEN HAVE IN HOUSE TO SHIP (A20's - I've
had one on order for almost 2 months now!) 

Don in DC

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On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:

> Trivia Question - Name the system that...
> 
> ... has the highest customer satisfaction index, as measured by public 
> technical trade publication, in the industry
> ... allows deployment of Linux, Java, UNIX, Windows 2000 and Domino based 
> applications on a single server
> ... is the first system to deliver 16Mbit and 64Mbit Memory Drams
> ... has never had a reported virus while customers have had security 
> functions operational
> ... is the first midrange system to deliver hardware data compression for 
> both disk and tape with 2-3X compression
> ... delivers vector coded indexes for Business Intelligence applications 
> offering 10X improvement in performance
> ... is the first system to deliver a Systems Managed Access Path Protection 
> (SMAPP) for Journaling
> ... is the first commercial system to have the world's fastest cross-bar 
> memory switch
> ... has had over 300 different processors in its history and no customer 
> has ever had to recompile their application code
> ... ships with over 300 processor chips under the covers of a single "system"
> ... can have 16 PC Servers under its covers running 4 different operating 
> systems while sharing the host systems DASD
> ... has more patents and copyrights than most of its competitors do for 
> their entire company's product line
> ... is the only system that ships over 30M lines of code (functionality) in 
> it operating system, all integrated and guaranteed by one service team, WW
> ... is so easy to install that one customer installed almost 60 of them a 
> day for a year, i.e. 15,300 systems
> ... has proven in a 2 year study that it can deliver 99.97% availability
> ... has proven its operating system can operate for more than 1 year 
> without ever requiring a re-IPL, in hundreds of customer shops
> ... is only system listed in the top-ten performance of all four public 
> commercially oriented benchmarks like TPC-C, NotesBench, SAP, CSLabs
> ... is the only system that can directly (natively) support 10 different 
> file structure, like PC files, UNIX file, Netware files, Domino files, 
> ASCII files, EBCDIC files
> ... is sold and supported in every country that IBM does business in
> ... was declared "dead" by two consultants in two magazines, 8 years ago 
> when it shipped the 100,000th system
> ... continues to break industry sales records and has now shipped over 
> 650,000 systems
> ... is architected, designed, built, tested and supported from one of the 
> coldest places in USA
> 
> Answer:
> AS400.... for Extreme Business! Share the News!
> 
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