I think we are in heated agreement about the i not being talked about in
the real world by IBM or anyone else,... at least so the real world
non-i-geek would understand. And I think we are in heated agreement
about OS/2 as well.
And on the OS/2 subject... FYI, IBM sales people DID NOT have any
incentive to sell OS/2. The reason why I say that is I WAS in IBM
sales offices and saw what was incented to sell. OS/2 would not garner
the sales person any commission of any consequences unless they sold
about 300 copies. Sooooo, since IBM didn't make it worth while, sales
didn't push it.
And in the current software development and sales environment... at
least from what I see...
often staunch i platform APPLICATION DEVELOPERS in the past are now
making versions of their software for other platforms as that's what
customer's know about and consequently are asking for. As far as the
sales side, IBM Business Partners I see have taken on other vendor's
products or services, like.... MicroSoft and ORACLE... because that's
what customers know about and want. In both cases, to support and grow
the revenue stream of the BP.
Dave
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx> 12/19/2008 16:49 >>>
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
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