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出版商:
Lets Go Publish!
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出版日期:
2016-07-20
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售價:
$880
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貴賓價:
9.5 折
$836
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語言:
英文
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頁數:
442
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裝訂:
Quality Paper - also called trade paper
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ISBN:
0974585203
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ISBN-13:
9780974585208
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相關分類:
IBM 技術
商品描述
For quite a few years, my friends in the computer industry and I have been confused by IBM's failure to highlight its single best product, the AS/400. I can remember saying to members of this group of AS/400 aficionados that only IBM could create the AS/400 and only IBM could destroy the AS/400. No company besides IBM could have invested as much capital on the technology that was necessary to create the AS/400, and no other company could intentionally destroy the product of its efforts, as the finest computer system ever built. After many years spent telling customers that it was planning to promote the AS/400, the plan never came. IBM's AS/400 customers are now in revolt against the company. IBM has not done a good job in its vital roles as caretaker and life-sustainer of this system, upon which many customers run their businesses. If IBM were doing a good job, one of the most asked questions in the industry would not be the following: "Is the AS/400 Dead?"Most people see IBM as a very successful company that is really great at making big computers. That is IBM's legacy for those who drink from the fountain of public knowledge. Unless you work in the computer industry, you would naturally be unaware of all the ventures over the years in which IBM was less than successful. For the record, today's IBM is the same IBM that lost the PC business, the relational database business, the telecommunications business, the application software business, the satellite communications business, the Unix business, the word processing business, the video disk business, the computerized branch exchange business, the disk drive business, as well a number of other businesses in which you and I would have made millions. Yet, without learning a lesson, the new IBM is behaving as arrogantly with its AS/400 customers as it did during these other great losses. So what are we to expect?
商品描述(中文翻譯)
在過去的幾年裡，我和我在電腦產業的朋友們一直對IBM未能突出其最佳產品AS/400感到困惑。我記得曾對這群AS/400愛好者的成員說過，只有IBM能創造AS/400，只有IBM能摧毀AS/400。除了IBM，沒有其他公司能在創造AS/400所需的技術上投入如此多的資本，也沒有其他公司能故意摧毀其努力的成果，這是有史以來最優秀的電腦系統。經過多年告訴客戶IBM計劃推廣AS/400，但這個計劃從未實現。IBM的AS/400客戶現在對公司感到不滿。IBM在作為這個系統的看護者和生命維持者的關鍵角色上表現不佳，許多客戶依賴這個系統來運營他們的業務。如果IBM做得好，業界最常被問到的問題之一就不會是：“AS/400死了嗎？”大多數人將IBM視為一家非常成功的公司，擅長製造大型電腦。這是IBM在公共知識泉源中留下的遺產。除非你在電腦產業工作，否則你自然不會知道IBM多年來在許多不太成功的冒險中所經歷的情況。值得一提的是，今天的IBM與當年失去PC業務、關聯數據庫業務、電信業務、應用軟體業務、衛星通信業務、Unix業務、文字處理業務、視頻光碟業務、計算機分支交換業務、磁碟驅動器業務以及其他許多我們本可以賺取數百萬的業務的IBM是同一家公司。然而，新的IBM卻沒有吸取教訓，對待AS/400客戶的態度依然傲慢，就像在這些其他重大損失期間一樣。我們該期待什麼呢？
作者簡介
Brian W. Kelly retired as an Assistant Professor in the Business Information Technology (BIT) program at Marywood University, where he also served as the IBM i and midrange systems technical advisor to the IT faculty. Kelly has designed, developed, and taught many college and professional courses. He is also a contributing technical editor to a number of IT industry magazines, including "The Four Hundred" and "Four Hundred Guru" published by IT Jungle. On the patriotic side, you once could find a patriotic Kelly article at www.conservativeactionalerts.com. This site no longer functions but the articles are still hosted at www.brianwkelly.com Kelly is a former IBM Senior Systems Engineer and he has been a candidate for US Congress and the US Senate from Pennsylvania. He has an active information technology consultancy. He is the author of 70 books and numerous articles. Kelly is a frequent speaker at National Conferences, and other technical conferences. When Brian wrote Can the AS/400 Survive IBM in 2004, it was his 21st book. Over the past twenty years, Brian Kelly has become one of America's most outspoken and eloquent technical authors. Besides this book, his titles about IBM include Chip Wars; Whatever Happened to the IBM AS/400, Thank You IBM: The story of how IBM helped today's technology billionaires and millionaires gain their vast fortunes, The All-Everything Machine, The All-Everything Operating System. Besides these, many other Kelly books are available at www.bookhawkers.com
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
布萊恩·W·凱利（Brian W. Kelly）曾擔任美利華大學（Marywood University）商業資訊科技（Business Information Technology, BIT）計畫的助理教授，並擔任IT系教師的IBM i及中型系統技術顧問。凱利設計、開發並教授了許多大學及專業課程。他也是多本IT產業雜誌的技術編輯，包括由IT Jungle出版的《The Four Hundred》和《Four Hundred Guru》。在愛國主義方面，您曾經可以在www.conservativeactionalerts.com找到凱利的愛國文章。該網站目前已不再運作，但文章仍可在www.brianwkelly.com上找到。凱利曾是IBM的高級系統工程師，並曾參選美國國會及賓夕法尼亞州的美國參議院。他擁有一家活躍的資訊科技顧問公司。他是70本書籍及多篇文章的作者。凱利經常在全國會議及其他技術會議上發表演講。當布萊恩在2004年撰寫《AS/400能否在IBM中生存》（Can the AS/400 Survive IBM）時，這是他的第21本書。在過去的二十年中，布萊恩·凱利已成為美國最直言不諱且口才出眾的技術作者之一。除了這本書，他關於IBM的著作包括《晶片戰爭》（Chip Wars）、《IBM AS/400發生了什麼》（Whatever Happened to the IBM AS/400）、《謝謝你，IBM》（Thank You IBM: The story of how IBM helped today's technology billionaires and millionaires gain their vast fortunes）、《全能機器》（The All-Everything Machine）、《全能作業系統》（The All-Everything Operating System）。此外，凱利的其他許多書籍可在www.bookhawkers.com上找到。
