RE: IBM gets serious about 64 bits

["Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>]

> From: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Do you expect them to say "Our PC servers will now be 
> 64-bit!  Our iSeries has been 64-bit for 8 years!"

Would be nice. Isn't one of the points of sales/press literature to 'gloat' how 
good your product(s) is(are) at every opportunity ?

<SLAP> Sorry, seems I was slipping into reality for a moment there, away from 
the IBM mantra of the "iSeries is so good it will sell itself - no marketing 
needed"...

But I understand (I think) your point, that IBM can't really compare the 
xSeries now running 64bit with the iSeries (which has been 64bit), unless they 
had both been running the same OS, apps, etc. It still would have been nice for 
them to slip in the "iSeries 64bit for 8 years" test somewhere though :)

--phil