Re: So if there is no Hardware specific Advertising then???????

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> (Hey Lou, and you listening?  I doubt it, because IBM's current management
> technique is anything for a fast dollar.  The hell with customer sat.  Lou,
> you want to make a fast buck, sell the AS/400 Division.  But once you do,
> you better get out of the computer business, because no one could compete
> with a well run AS/400 Company!)
> 

last month, i went to a convention for credit managers.  i heard several
of them talking about their company computer systems.  there was this
really slick p/c based product demonstrated at the 'expo' to handle in
house collections.  one evening, i overheard one lady saying she wanted
the package, but (big sigh) their company had an as/400.  the fellow she
was talking to mentioned that they had had an as/400 too, but had
switched to a windows based system last year.  the definate tone of the
conversation was if you had an as/400, you were using yesteryear's
technology.  

i jumped in and told them i worked with as/400's, and she could get a
p/c instead of a dumb terminal, etc, etc, but they both looked at me
like i had just landed from mars.  

it got me to thinking, in the early 90's, at the expo, many of the
products demonstrated (accounts receivable and accounting systems) were
as/400 based.  this year, none. 

there is a definate perception problem with the as/400.  what can be
done to turn it around?  

nj
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