RE: IBM i advertising!!!

["Pete Massiello" <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck,

	Definitely agree, to find out what type of audience out of curiosity
is great, just as long as we don't get into which types of radio stations
they should be.  That was kind of my comments on what types of hardware the
marketing people should suggest.

	Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 8:10 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: IBM i advertising!!!

Pete I don't disagree but will add that I asked about radio station format
strictly to try and ascertain what the target audience might be. I think
that is legit (?) :-)

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Massiello
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 12:07 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: IBM i advertising!!!

Do you think the marketing list server (for Marketing professionals) is
discussing if their new computer to run the company on is going to have SAS
or SCSI drives?  Or if they should get the new 12X loop or stick with the
HSL-2 loop technology?  We finally hear some advertizing about i and we
question if it's the right station, and right media, etc.  While IBM hasn't
done a good job marketing this machine over the last 20 years, perhaps it
could be the start of what we will see as the 20th birthday of our AS/400
happens in just over a month.

Let's be happy we are hearing commercials about i at all.  Perhaps someone
at IBM realized that this is the best middleware that they have, and it's
time to promote it?  Perhaps the new guys at Power Systems see this OS as
something they wish they could be when AIX grows up ;)  Whatever the reason,
I would think that IBM would not be promoting an OS they were moth-balling
(but this is IBM, so you never know).  

If anyone finds the radio ads on the internet, please post a link to them as
I am sure a lot of us would like to hear them.

Pete