System i Addict

Here is a new list of complaints form users

IBM in all it’s wisdom has put the cap of 40 users on the 515. I have mentioned this before. Why? We may never know. It just seems like another stupid move by IBM. They seem to make these from time to time and it is dumbfounding. Like the move to keep what will go down as the ugliest mail client, Lotus Notes, around for so long before working on a decent replacement. Why they would announce to the world they were going to move all global desktops and laptops to Linux in the next five years and then do nothing with their Windows Software to foster that move.

Why would you make the fastest, and most reliable system, the i5 in a nice small affordable package and then put a limit on it? Why? Please someone with brains take over the i5 business unit at IBM and do something right for a change? In the last 20 years IBM has bumbled the i5 product line like a bunch of keystone cops. They get something right like the price and the size and then do something stupid like put a cap on the number of users.

You want to sell more i5 units than you ever have before? Put someone like me in charge of the i5 unit and give me 5 years, I would put sales through the roof and it would all be because I would take the likes of DELL and Microsoft on head to head. I would give them night mares and make them scramble to keep up with me. The issue is that IBM has followed the market instead of leading it. The i5 is a super system and they still hid it in a corner and put Lenovo laptops on the homepage. Those laptops are not going to save IBM from floundering. You have to innovate and lead the charge and the i5 can do that but you don’t lead with a 40 user cap…..you get beat up and batted down for being stupid and short sighted.

You don’t have to be brilliant to sell the i5 you have to out smart the competition and you have to sell it’s strong points. I know how I would do it and I am not fancy college grad with a Phd or a Masters but I do know CIOs and CEOs and I know what the Microsoft morons are doing and I know you just shot yourself in the foot again?

The i5 team at IBM seems inept again. They don’t seem to understand that IT shops are getting less and less money not more. They are wondering if IBM is still the right choice and SUN who just open sourced Solaris and will do anything to get a sale is going to eat this 40 user cap up for lunch. Did no one in the room when you were working out this 40 user plan call any of you stupid? Did no one complain out loud, there had to be one person in the room who said I don’t think that’s such a good idea…give that person a promotion and the rest of you get to go home for being stupid! They should be in charge not the moron at IBM who thought the cap was a good idea?

I am sure they will find someway at COMMON to avoid this topic as I am going to bring it up as much as I can? IBM has made a move that I think will go down as one of the death nails of the i5 instead of one of those moments when it made a positive impact unless they fix it in the next 15 days or so to save face and make things right.

Oh did I also mention I would get rid of the interactive cap as well? Just to make up for all those years or taxing us for interactive users.