RE: "State of the Midrange" by Don Rima

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

>So OK folks, then WHY don't a GROUP of us agree
>that this needs to be done and DO IT ???? !!!
>We COULD coordinate this and share information
>back and forth. With the exception of John Carr
>and myself (and I KNOW there ARE others...) how
>many of you folks EVER write to or email a
>non-AS/400 publication or hit non-AS/400 forums
>to tout and debate the AS/400 ???? !!!!

>Chuck

Funny you mention that.  I saw yours and John Carr's posts last month on the
need to write the editor.  So I wrote InfoWorld thanking them for running
"The Platform that Pays" along with other articles favorable to the AS/400
(including John Carr's article).  They published that letter yesterday.

IMO, good press sells computers even better than good marketing.  If you
want more good press for the AS/400 then you should subscribe to InfoWorld'w
free e-mail newsletter at http://www.iwsubscribe.com/newsletters/ and then
tell the editor why you are subscribing at letters@infoworld.com.

These two simple things can be done in the time it takes to write and/or
read a flame on IBM's marketing, and with a lot less expense than an ad in
the WSJ.

I would think there may be a good case for David Gibbs to open up a forum
dedicated to people who actually want TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT improving the
perception of the AS/400.  And I, for one, would be open to other
suggestions.

Someone said "A journey of thousand miles begins with just one step."  I say
that's true, but progress is a lot faster if one thousand people each take
one step in the same direction.

jt


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