Re: [ISN-Citizens] IBM annual meeting -- MIDRANGE-L


BULLY FOR YOU JANET! :)

Keep their toes to the flames...:)

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On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 Janet_Krueger@common.org wrote:

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> I attended the IBM annual meeting in Louisville this morning, and took the
> opportunity to ask a question about the iSeries.
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> I asked why the iSeries seems to be treated lately like an embarrassing
> stepchild.  It is hardly mentioned at all in the IBM annual reports, isn't
> mentioned during the meeting, isn't demonstrated in the expo for shareholders,
> and doesn't receive much marketing exposure.  This is particularly sad since 
>for
> the second year in a row, a big iSeries announcement has been done the same 
>week
> of the shareholder's meeting.  Since this is the best business machine IBM has
> in their portfolio, I don't understand why IBM isn't bragging about it, rather
> than keeping it a secret.  The iSeries has about the highest customer sat 
>rating
> possible. I'm on the board of directors for COMMON, IBM's largest user's 
>group,
> and IBM's lack of attention to this box is greatly disturbing to the 30,000
> COMMON members...
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> Sam Palmissano said they certainly aren't trying to ignore the iSeries -- he
> gave an overview of yesterday's announcement, and said they are continuing to
> invest in the box. He said I might be confused by IBM's eServer branding
> strategy, which is successful, as it has gained them 7.5 points of market 
>share
> -- under that strategy, IBM is just talking about the eServer as a whole, and
> not focusing on any single box.  (Of course, that doesn't explain why they did
> have a pSeries in the expo, clearly labelled as a pSeries, or why he included
> both the pSeres and the zSeries in his report, without talking about the 
>eServer
> as a whole...)  Lou Gerstner then jumped in and said he agreed the AS/400 is a
> great box, said that when he was at Nabisco all of his processing was done on
> AS/400s, and said "Sam and Janet and I are in agreement that this has always
> been IBM's best business box, now, and when it was an AS/400, and even before
> then when, what was it before?"  Sam said it was a System/36 and and a
> System/38.
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> So while they clearly didn't say they would start marketing the iSeries,
> everyone at the shareholder's meeting heard good things about it...
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> Janet Krueger
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