It never really work(plac)ed
by Volker Weber
When I had to remove a nonsense comment from an old post, I was reminded that IBM does not seem to have much luck with the Workplace brand. Remember Workplace OS, Workplace Shell or (gasp) Workplace Messaging?
Comments
Remember "Workplace On-Demand" too?
You are right all the products with "workplace" in their name did not fare as well as IBM had hoped.
Perhaps we are not too happy being reminded that dealing with computers is supposed to be 'work'. ;-)
Ah.. Restricted Workplace Shell on OS/2.. happy memories.
I actually left my first job in PC support after we deployed RWS across the company, as there was no work left to do! 1000 users, and on average 1, yes ONE, helpdesk call per day.
Shame.
IBM has a thing for work
IBM Workgroups (beta was available for OS/2 and Windows 3.11) before Lotus came on board.
Cheers Marco
Sorry guys, only Workplace counts. Another slogan that failed twice was "People Places and Things". Who can name both tries?
Whhoops my bad not "Workplace On-demand"
but "IBM WorkSpace On-Demand".
Anyone in for some OS/2 nostalgia go and the Redbook on V3.0.1
IBM usage of People, Places and Things:
1. Taligent was a joint Apple/IBM effort to build a next-generation OS. People, Places and Things was a central methaphor in their OS.
2. I believe that Raven (Discovery Server) used "People, Places and Things" as a marketing slogan.
You get 100 points. :-)
Wasn't "Raven" the code-name for K-Station?
Oops, guess not :)
Post a comment
Recent comments
Andy Brunner
on Remember, it's always the cable at 11:37
Ben Rose
on Remember, it's always the cable at 11:33
Ben Poole
on It has only been less than two hours at 09:44
Frank L. Quednau
on It has only been less than two hours at 09:29
Martin Hiegl
on It has only been less than two hours at 08:27
Stephan H. Wissel
on Notes.ini parameter RunFaster=1 is finally here at 05:24
Volker Weber
on It has only been less than two hours at 01:33
Thomas "Duffbert" Duff
on It has only been less than two hours at 01:26
Chris Linfoot
on Planet Lotus not picking up Christopher's feed at 21:56
Yancy Lent
on Planet Lotus not picking up Christopher's feed at 19:48
Bruce Elgort
on Robin Bloor: Why Google Chrome Will Dominate at 18:51
Mac Guidera
on Planet Lotus not picking up Christopher's feed at 16:04
Kevan Emmott
on 824 Chrome users so far today at 15:56
Chris Linfoot
on Planet Lotus not picking up Christopher's feed at 14:54
Lars Berntrop-Bos
on Planet Lotus not picking up Christopher's feed at 13:12
Andreas Braukmann
on 824 Chrome users so far today at 11:33
Nick Daisley
on Robin Bloor: Why Google Chrome Will Dominate at 10:14
Chris Linfoot
on Planet Lotus not picking up Christopher's feed at 09:42
Alper Iseri
on 824 Chrome users so far today at 09:38
Jean Pierre Wenzel
on 824 Chrome users so far today at 08:37
Jan-Piet Mens
on Robin Bloor: Why Google Chrome Will Dominate at 08:26
Benjamin Stein
on Synchronizing iPhone with ... Lotus Notes at 07:18
Greg Walrath
on Party like it's 2008 at 06:56
Andy Brunner
on Party like it's 2008 at 05:41
Michelle O'Rorke
on Synchronizing iPhone with ... Lotus Notes at 05:01
Click here to subscribe
