Greg,
You've missed your calling - you should work for IBM
advertizing/marketing.:-)
Richard
Stigers, Greg [And] wrote:
>
> X-no-Archive:yes
> Some off list kibitzing resulted in the following. My unnamed co-conspirator
> thought that this was list-worthy. I hope that others agree, but hope even
> more that we see something like this, but soon.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: RE: Re: HP 3000 Outdated
>
> Now if we could only HP to try to sell. Have you seen the Lotus Notes R5
> commercial? Nice marketing!
>
> I'd settle for a few of those IBM-style commercials, where people are
> talking about their technology. Maybe a meeting where you have a room full
> of UNIX admins, all to keep one application on one system up and running,
> and unable to agree on how, all arguing and talking at once. Then the
> attention turns to the one guy, who gets asked, What do you do? HP 3000
> System Manager. Who handles security? I do. So who admins the box? Me.
> Where's your DBA? Uh, that's me, too. And what application does your system
> run again? We run Payroll. And web ordering. And inventory, and its data
> warehouse. And Email. And EDI. And what is your role in this meeting?
> Helping you guys try to replace one of my applications with your solution...
> So, your system isn't going to be Y2K compliant? No, it has been for months.
> But it can't handle our current volume? No, we've been able to scale up to
> stay ahead of projected growth, and have done so, on budget and ahead of
> schedule. But you won't be able to meet future growth, right? No, we can
> meet or exceed projected growth for the next five years, which is as far
> ahead as anyone has planned. So, why are we trying to replace your
> application? I can't think of a reason.
>
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> The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
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Richard Gambrell
Database Administrator and Consultant to Computing Services
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Dept. 4454
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