Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/16/2005 at 03:13 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: IBM tried to react by launching a major project called the 'Future System' (FS) in the early 1970's. I remember getting a chuckle when it surfaced; the Hebrew word efes means nothing. That was IBM's

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

In a message dated 10/2/2005 1:57:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how many people know where the spring '68 SHARE meeting was held? I do for one. Headquarters hotel was the Shamrock Hilton in downtown Houston. How many attended? I did, for one. Did you get to

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This project paid for a large number of full-time IBM programmers under their Federal Systems Division who were working at this facility near Houston, among whom were the two original developers of HASP, Tom Simpson and Bob Crabtree. HASP evolved into JES2, recently

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

In a message dated 10/16/2005 4:14:06 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when i was an undergraudate ... i got involved in project to reverse engineer the ibm channel interface and build our own controller ... someplace there was a write-up blaiming us for inception of

(fwd) Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 15:14:47 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Edward E. Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AntonMvs2005 wrote: Why does the investors not see what I am seeing ? [snip] Six month a 'go, I think it's 6 to 12 months, they tried to target the medical sector. At the same time W also

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

Hi, Most of us could be seen as Sitting in a dark room reading IBM manuals for a living, or that's what I have been doing for most of my life but I am trying to think a little wider. So, you might say where are you going with this ? Anybody remembers where JES comes from ... and by the way ,

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

AntonMvs2005 wrote: Most of us could be seen as Sitting in a dark room reading IBM manuals for a living, or that's what I have been doing for most of my life but I am trying to think a little wider. So, you might say where are you going with this ? Anybody remembers where JES comes from

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

So, you might say where are you going with this ? I was kind of hoping you'd get to the point eventually. Anybody remembers where JES comes from ... and by the way , for those that do not read the newspapers, NASA also tried to cash in on the NEW ORLEANS thing by saying They need 101

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

Hi, What I saw this week on this list is that most of us agrees with our view of the IBM market place On Earth. Needless to say , that is why I phrased the posting with Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM and I ended the posting with the question : Why does the investors not see what I am seeing

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

AntonMvs2005 wrote: Why does the investors not see what I am seeing ? [snip] Six month a 'go, I think it's 6 to 12 months, they tried to target the medical sector. At the same time W also suddenly announced that he feels the FEDS need to put more money into the IS departments of the

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

Hi guys, Just a few corrections just morning: a) My initially email was not an intent to flame IBM or BMC b) I do not know Chris Craddock, Chris Blaicher or David Allen Gibbey Jnr. What was my intention? I did read the local news as explained in a previous email and I then extracted some of

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

Some extracts from an article pointed to by this URL : These are very old articles (see my notes below.) Did you have a point to make or are you just doing hardware archaeology 101? http://news.com.com/IBM+works+to+make+mainframes+mainstream/2100-1010_3- 1001595.html?tag=nl Published: May

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

Hi, Chris, I would explain this date phenomena slowly for you : a) Go here http://news.com.com/ for the latest news b) Then you browse down this page to this article : All CNET News.com blogs (Last updated: Sep 25, 2005 11:41 AM ) IBM: IBM at the Emmy's c) Then you click on

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

. Personal opinion only -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AntonMvs2005 Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 3:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ? Hi, Chris, I would explain this date phenomena

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

: Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ? Anton, No matter how you got to the article, you were pretty lax in checking the content. I can go to the most widely read book in the world, and quote passages where the world is declared flat, but that does not make it so, or relevant to today's knowledge

Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gibney, David Allen,Jr Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 9:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ? Obviously, you folks don't follow SAG-L, where we've learned to ignore most of Anton's flame bait

Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?

Hi, Some extracts from an article pointed to by this URL : http://news.com.com/IBM+works+to+make+mainframes+mainstream/2100-1010_3-1001 595.html?tag=nl a) A new machine, code-named T-Rex http://news.com.com/IBM+to+unearth+T-Rex+mainframe/2100-1010_3-1000894.html ?tag=nl , boasts