Steve Comstock writes: >My understanding of how the IBM world works today is that >the largest 600 IBM customers are actually handled by IBM >salespeople who are really IBM employess. Everyone else is >"served" by VARs. Maybe the OP's VAR is doing cherry picking, >only bothering to go after the clients with the most potential >net revenue. It's not your father's IBM any more.
John would probably know what the reality is. But it sounds like he's getting a proposal from IBM for SAP on p and he is disappointed IBM is not providing an SAP on z proposal for their consideration. I have no idea why that is and would never presume to pass judgment, but I'm volunteering to look into it if John wishes my help. I agree with one sentence: no, this is not my father's IBM. I think my (grand)father worked for IBM, but there were two big differences: (1) he was a salesperson; (2) he knew a lot about meat scales. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
