Subj : Re: IBM orders workers ba
To   : Mike Powell
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Mon Apr 21 2025 07:30:18

-=> Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

 MP> Having worked closely with IBM for many years, I am not too shocked
 MP> that this all sounds confusing.  With tech, and especially sales, a lot
 MP> of workers are on the road most of the time anyway so I am not sure why
 MP> having them "in the office" would even be important.  Even when they
 MP> are "in the office" they won't be there.

It sounded like a big part of the directive was to allow for techs
embedded in large contracts to include time at customer sites as part of
their RTO. RTC, as they called it.

My first IT gig was at a shop that was all IBM - PS/2 desktops and
servers, AS/400 and S/38 midrange computers and token ring networking.
We had a dedicated rep who was onsite 2 days a week, primarily
schmoozing the VP of IT (who seemed so old, but it about my age now!)

I suppose they still have those "big iron" clients out there, pretty
sure they sold the server business to Lenovo along with the desktop
business.

Pretty interesting times, being able to have IBM branded schwag, mice,
desktop PCs, network equipment, operating systems, applications, intel
servers and big iron all supported by the same company.

My OS/2 pen just recently ran out of ink - it outlasted the OS by many
years!


 
--- MultiMail/Win v0.52
 * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org | tomorrow's retro tech (1:218/1)

.