Re: Business Developers was ->Re: IBM Gives RPG Devotees Their Own Café

Dave Odom skrev:

Observation of ALL of the marketplace, just about any place where technology is talked about; you almost never hear about the i except in forums that cater to it.

For some reason IBM cannot sell gold for half the price (an observation I made back in the OS/2 days).

Since apparently they do not want the customers to know it exists, it is quite hard to talk about. Additionally you pay up front, which means that you have a very hard time getting new customers who usually can get by with a Linuxbox and a small database.

I frankly have no idea why IBM does it like that, but I guess there is a reason :)


Regarding Powerpoint, here is an article about whether PowerPoint made the space shuttle crash :)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901444.html