Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread Ron Wells
Windows is what s/b toast--hopefully..Linux a much better OS -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Friday, July 02, 2021 12:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM email migration disaster ** EXTERNAL EMAIL - USE CAUTION

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread Bill Johnson
IBM will be around for another half century or more. I remember people saying they’d be gone by Y2K. That mainframes were toast. 25 years ago. They still process the important stuff. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, July 2, 2021, 1:07 PM, zMan wrote: See, that's where your blindne

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread Bill Johnson
Phone still works. Got numerous email accounts.  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, July 2, 2021, 1:08 PM, zMan wrote: I guess you don't work with customers. Or do they all use fax still? On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 1:06 PM Bill Johnson < 0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wr

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread zMan
I guess you don't work with customers. Or do they all use fax still? On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 1:06 PM Bill Johnson < 0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > No company I ever worked for was paralyzed by an email outage. And IBM’s > cloud business is doing just fine. Unlike the nume

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread zMan
See, that's where your blindness comes into play: I have made my living from IBM and been a user and fan for almost a half-century. I mourn what a shadow of its greatness it has become, and hope that someone can turn them around. But the ship seems headed inexorably toward the iceberg. Very sad. O

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread Bill Johnson
No company I ever worked for was paralyzed by an email outage. And IBM’s cloud business is doing just fine. Unlike the numerous outages from AWS & Azure. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, July 2, 2021, 1:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: O

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 12:47:23 -0400, zMan wrote: >https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/ > > "If we can't even handle our own cloud migration program then why would >any customer trust us?" > "... everything should go fine provided everyone follows the instructions emailed

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread Bill Johnson
Your anti IBM bias is well known here. And very old. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, July 2, 2021, 12:58 PM, zMan wrote: First, "off-topic" and "IBM-MAIN" are good friends. Second, this is hardly off-topic when it's paralyzing IBM. Third, your blind IBM fanboi obeisance is well d

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread Bill Johnson
Paralyzing? lol  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, July 2, 2021, 12:58 PM, zMan wrote: First, "off-topic" and "IBM-MAIN" are good friends. Second, this is hardly off-topic when it's paralyzing IBM. Third, your blind IBM fanboi obeisance is well documented; I for one am tired of it,

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread zMan
First, "off-topic" and "IBM-MAIN" are good friends. Second, this is hardly off-topic when it's paralyzing IBM. Third, your blind IBM fanboi obeisance is well documented; I for one am tired of it, as it defies logic. On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 12:55 PM Bill Johnson < 0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@li

Re: IBM email migration disaster

2021-07-02 Thread Bill Johnson
Off topic. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, July 2, 2021, 12:47 PM, zMan wrote: https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/ "If we can't even handle our own cloud migration program then why would any customer trust us?" Indeed. Don't worry, IBM -- nobody actually use