Thanks! I knew the phrase but didn’t recognize it as acronym. The MBA portion misled me
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 17, 2018, at 5:21 PM, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > > Task. Management By Airline Magazine! > > From: Jeff Savit [mailto:jsa...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 8:06 PM > To: li...@akphs.com > Cc: ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: IBM Z and cloud > > "MBAM"? I'm guessing that's MBA "something" > > I haven't had a chance to do more than skim the article, but it doesn't look > good at all. > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 4:51 PM Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > Mohammad Khan wrote, in part: > >May be Ginny & friends don't want to be left out of all this cool cloud talk > >at the parties, so they made the claim. It's not like that there is a > >Cloud(TM) certifying authority that will shut them up :). > Indeed. That’s what I’m getting out of this: it’s MBAM, only worse. And is > going to doom IBM if they don’t smarten up. > Article I tripped across, badly edited but trenchant: > https://seekingalpha-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/seekingalpha.com/amp/article/4205420-sad-decline-international-business-machines > I (like most on this list) have made my career around IBM. I’ve had my > frustrations with it, but it’s been Big Blue and a good thing for decades. > Now it seems bent on self-destruction, and I’m watching its death-spiral and > wishing I knew some way to stop it. I suppose Ginny & co. may feel the same > way, but they sure don’t *appear* to be worried: it feels like it’s “full > speed ahead, that can’t possibly be an iceberg up there!” and that’s both sad > and scary. I’m not likely to give up on it – I have a proven track record of > sticking with things long after it’s sensible, I’m afraid – but I can’t say > I’m enjoying the current arc. > …phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
