9 Apr
2013
9 Apr
'13
8:43 p.m.
On 9-apr-2013 17:50, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
Well IBM _is_ a publicly traded company, and
aside from making
good systems, they also have to make money for themselves & their
shareholders. While you may not like how they do it, they are making
money.
It sounds more like there are a bunch of big freeloaders at the top
of IBM, just like in many other companies (HP immediately springs
to mind), who care more for their own, personal, immediate needs
--- their car park, yachts and private jets --- than the prolonged
existence of their niche and "legacy" product lines.
Because the people that care about this, and need
to know,
don't "need no stinkin'" ads & youtube videos to know who to call.
That's something of and for the /little people/, now isn't it?
I guess that's true then.
Oh, I'm sure they would love to expand their
mainframe business.
And world peace too, don't forget world peace. Maybe throw in "going
green" also, while they're at it.
But the people that need that get treated differently.
IBM would have
a sales guy go to the potential client.
How delightfully 1950s, so in a way also a bit like a door-to-door
vacuum cleaner salesman?
- MG