IBM units really are isolated islands wrapped up in their own affairs and with no knowledge of or interest in any other part of the business – in previewing the new AS/400s, IBM Corp revealed that one of the elements of the system got its name after IBM pitched a manufacturing requirements planning system running on AS/400 to a large manufacturing undertaking with operations in California, Germany and Japan: what’s the database? asked the customer, and the question was clearly pressing because it went right back to the boss, who said reluctantly You’d better say DB2/400; DB2? said the delighted client – oh, we know that and signed the deal; and the customer? IBM’s own AdStar disk business…
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