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In 2010, Brian Kelly, a conservative
Democrat ran for US Congress from Pennsylvania in District 11, against a
thirteen term incumbent, in a three person race. Kelly gained seventeen percent
of the vote in the Primary election without taking a dime of outside money. His
total expenditures were approximately $4,000, which according to Kelly was
about $4000 more than he thought he should have to spend to perform a civic
duty.
In 2012, Kelly ran for the US Senate
seat then and now held by Robert P. Casey Jr. from Pennsylvania.
When you have the time, feel free to
go to the www.kellyforussenate.com site as well as the www.briankellyforcongress.com site. Both have
been maintained reasonably intact for historical purposes.
The Kelly campaign hosted many
chapters of Brian’s recent books on the campaign sites where they are still
available for free viewing and downloading.
Here are a number of Brian Kelly’s
books, all of which are available for purchase at www.bookhawkers.com. If you are
interested in supporting the Kelly literary and research projects, the best way
would be by purchasing a book.
Thank you.
Brian Kelly’s latest book, No
Amnesty! No Way! is being hosted one chapter at a
time on www.conservativeactionalerts. Feel free to visit
http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2013/07/theodore-roosevelt-tr-on-america-and-immigrants/ to
view the first chapter and those that have been posted since mid July, 2013.
You may email Brian at
Email: info@letsgopublish.com
Here are Brian Kelly’s most current books:
No Amnesty! No Way!
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This is the Press Release that we used to
kick off this book in 2013:
****** PRESS RELEASE ******
NO AMNESTY! NO WAY!
BRIAN KELLY ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF HIS
48th BOOK
The Kelly Plan Solves the Immigration Problem Forever!
Brian Kelly, a former IBM Senior Systems
Engineer and former Professor of Business and Information Technology (BIT) at
Marywood University in Scranton, and former candidate for US Congress from PA
District 11, announces the immediate availability of his forty-eighth published
book titled, No Amnesty! No Way!
Kelly wrote this book because like many
Americans, he fears that with the infusion of fifty million new citizens into
America, our economy and our public infrastructure will collapse. Many
Americans are aware that in 2013, eight senators formed a “gang of eight”
consisting of RINOs and the Americans Last crowd. Kelly calls them the “gang of
eight tyrants” for their work is pure tyranny.
Throughout the first half of 2013, this gang
continually badgered the public with radio and TV ads. Their objective was to
get their fellow Senators to pass their destructive amnesty legislation,
knowing it would hurt Americans for decades to come.
Kelly said: “By reading their own press
releases, this gang of eight tyrants and the rest of the US Senate felt
confident enough to stab the American people right in the chest.” They passed a
politically tainted immigration reform bill on Thursday, June 27, 2013 that
gives a path to citizenship to the estimated 50 million illegal foreign
nationals residing in the U.S. The bill passed 68 to 32, picking up all
Democrats and 14 RINOS. Kelly offered that “these fourteen Republicans keep
trying to out-Democrat the Democrats but in the end; they all voted against
America.”
Kelly went on: “The gang of eight tyrants’
amnesty plan is designed to kill America. There won’t be any jobs left; but
worst than that, there will be no more America. Our country will be owned and
overrun by illegal foreign nationals from Mexico and China, and elsewhere.
Americans will be paying them to live here for free. If you think things are
bad for your kids now, wait until this legislation from the most corrupt
politicians in America is rammed down your throats. There will be no jobs for
our children!”
“If you want foreigners to be voting in
American elections, and you want newly minted citizens to be taking American
jobs, and you want the average wage in America to keep going down, and you want
Congress to consider changing our national language from English to Mandarin,
and you want to pay the cost of welfare cash and food and housing and medical
for the new owners of America; and you want China and Russia to be the only
superpowers left in the world, please encourage your legislators in the HOUSE
to quickly pass the Senate’s gang of eight tyrants plan so we can quickly move
forth with the destruction of America the beautiful and the once grand. Yes,
this situation is that severe!” Kelly said.
Brian W. Kelly is one of America’s most
outspoken and eloquent conservative spokesmen. He is the author of Taxation
without Representation, Obama's Seven Deadly Sins, Saving America, Americans Need
Not Apply, Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Healthcare Accountability,
and many other patriotic books. Like
many Americans, Brian is fed up with a progressive liberal agenda in Washington
that places the needs of illegal foreign workers in front of the needs of Americans.
Kelly wrote this book to help Americans know
what we can do to force our government to regain control of our borders, ensure
our national security, keep our culture, enforce our laws, protect American
jobs, and keep all Americans from being overwhelmed by illegal foreign
nationals with no allegiance to the USA.
Like you, Brian is frustrated with the
devastation that illegal immigration inflicts on law-abiding Americans and
likewise he finds the destitution brought upon the illegal class by corporate
America to be the greatest sin of all. He's read the intelligence reports, has
researched and written about the topic for years, and he knows how intolerable
illegal immigration can be within our neighborhoods.
There are many elitist money people paying
off our legislators with real money to push the gang of eight tyrants plan down
our throats. While American businesses would like to compete with slave shops
in Asia and hellholes across the world, Americans remember that we once removed
the Robber Barons from power. Ironically, Labor arbitrage is back and in those
industries that reluctantly hire Americans, the employees are paid slave wages.
No Amnesty! No Way! says
it all in the title. In addition to showing why Rubio’s and Schumer’s amnesty
is not the right medicine, Brian Kelly introduces the Kelly Plan for
Comprehensible and Sane Immigration Reform. You are going to love it because it
is designed by an American for Americans and it solves the immigration problem
forever.
Few books are a must-read but No Amnesty! No
Way! is at the top of the list.
Brian Kelly is a defender of the Constitution
and in many of his books; he includes the full text of the US Constitution.
Though not claiming to be the originator of the "Tea Party" movement
by any measure, he does take pride in the thought process behind his 2010
Taxation Without Representation book. Kelly smiles as
he reads the subtitle, "Can the U.S. Avoid another Boston Tea Party?”
All chapters of the No Amnesty! No Way! book are being made available free of charge to the public
at www.conservativeactionalerts.com.
Chapter 1 of the book, titled “Theodore
Roosevelt (TR) on America and Immigrants” is already posted at
http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2013/07/theodore-roosevelt-tr-on-america-and-immigrants/.
No Amnesty! No Way! is
available for sale in paperback form at www.bookhawkers.com and
www.checkoutking.com.
By visiting websites or by reading his books,
it is easy to learn that Brian Kelly stands where you stand on the issues of
the day. He sounds like one of US because he is one of US.
Kelly offers to all: “Best wishes for a
better America!”
The full cover of No Amnesty! No Way! Can be
downloaded as a pdf file at the following URL: www.brianwkelly.com/files/noamnestycover.pdf
Take the Train to Myrtle Beach
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Just when you thought the American Railroad
Industry consisted of only mile long freight trains or passenger services from
places you do not live to places you do not want to go, you found this book.
You found it just in time for your next vacation. Myrtle Beach is one of the
most beautiful and exciting vacation spots in the United States if not the
world. Train travel is definitely the most exciting and the most scenic, and
the least intrusive way to go from place to place in America. If you choose to
ignore the 60 miles from Florence SC to Myrtle Beach that requires a rent-a-car
or bus service, you can get there in just over nine hours from Philadelphia by train, all the while enjoying the ambience of what some may
think is from a bygone era.
In this book, you will learn that not only
can you get there from here, but the trip will be better than you ever thought
it might be. There are lots of great options such as coach or club car service,
mini sleepers or full bedrooms, and along the way there is time for a cocktail
or two in the dining / bar cars.
When you get to Myrtle Beach, you will find
that a world of natural wonderment opens up for your enjoyment. I have been
waiting for fifteen years to go back to Myrtle Beach and as soon as I found
that we could get there by train, I asked my wife Pat, who immediately said
“y-e-s.” Those three little letters mean so much!
While telling you how to get to Myrtle Beach
the best way via Amtrak, I was also compelled as a writer to discuss how the US
train experience compares with the European and the Chinese experience. And I
could not resist fantasizing about what will happen when the US builds high
speed rail across the country and what great choices we will have when the
timing of flights and train trips become very close.
Like the guy at Men’s Warehouse would say:
“You’re gonna like the way you look on the Amtrak
train, and you will look great in Myrtle Beach!”
Enjoy!
Saving America! -- The How-To Book
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The United States is in imminent danger and
we need a comprehensive, yet workable solution to bring us back on the right
economic track so that American businesses do so well that they can put the
Apply Inside signs back outside.
The reason there are no real middle class
jobs is because the economy is bad. It
is not working. Why is it not working? This government is ideologically driven
and its policies and regulations have businesses afraid to invest in America.
The government is the chief problem and so far, the government has chosen not
to get out of the way. But, it must, or that’s all she wrote for America! Government
philosophies must change for America to have a chance.
One way to change government philosophies is
for the same people who created the problem to change their ways. That rarely
happens. Another way to change government philosophies is to change governments.
We get to do that at the federal level every two to four years. Once every two
times, we get to change Presidents. For what ails the nation, this is our only
hope for a lasting change. What should that change in philosophy look like?
That’s what this book is all about!
Why did Brian Kelly write this book? The US
economy has simply stopped working and Barack Obama is the man carrying the
stop sign. Financial institutions have been forced to lessen their standards
while the taxpayer has become the prop between the cronies of a corrupt
government and their failure in business. The US adventure once starred rugged
individualists and only the strong survived. America became the strongest
nation on the planet. Government today uses progressive / Marxist principles to
create a society of wusses and wimps, in which the
American dream has become the promise of a government handout.
Businesses have decided that the US prize is
not worth going after any more, and they have taken their work overseas.
Government colluded with business enabling their quiet retreat. The plan
outlined for Saving America addresses all of the sticky areas where corruption
reins and corporations, unions, and government have been complicit in
undermining what is good for America and Americans. The Saving America plan is
good for the economy. It is good for the people. It is good for jobs. And, for
those corporations that want to sign up to be American-centric, it is good for
corporations. It is built to assure that we can get America back on its feet.
There is nothing like it anywhere else.
All we need is the resolve for the Saving
America plan to make us successful. So, quite simply, it is time to adopt a
plan built for recovery--the Saving America plan. Kelly tells you exactly why and
how in this book.
RRR:
A Unique Plan for Economic Recovery and Job
Creation
Unlike former presidential candidate Herman Cain’s 999 plan, RRR focuses on many more areas that need to be
addressed for US to turn our economy around and stimulate job creation. Cain’s
plan addresses only the tax structure, which must be changed as a start to
solving our economic woes. The RRR plan, which also addresses taxes, reaches
into many other critical areas that are impeding economic growth. You have seen
the short list before - regulations, immigration, and spending. In addition to
these and more, the RRR plan suggests that we alter our purely capitalist
system into one that is more mercantilist. This book is designed to explain
each problem and then solve it. No economist and no other candidate for office
are offering as comprehensive a solution as RRR.
Like the Cain 999 plan, RRR uses three catchy and unforgettable
letters instead of three numbers. Unlike the Cain 999, RRR takes on the full
set of issues that are addressed in the Kelly campaign. Along the way, U.S.
Senate Candidate Brian Kelly outlines and fleshes out another three sets of 3
R’s. These and the initial RRR set are necessary to help America climb out of its
Obama funk.
Why did Brian Kelly write this book? The quick answer is because
it reflects his campaign platform. Our economy has simply stopped working and
Barack Obama is the man carrying the stop sign. Our financial institutions have
been forced to lessen their standards while the taxpayer has become the prop
between the cronies of a corrupt government and their failure in business.
The US adventure once starred rugged individualists and only the
strong survived. America became the strongest nation on the planet. Government
today uses progressive / Marxist principles to create a society of wusses and wimps, in which the American dream is little
more than a handout.
Businesses have decided that the US prize is not worth going
after any more, and they have taken their work overseas. Government colluded
with business enabling their quiet retreat.
The RRR plan addresses all of the sticky areas where corruption
reins and corporations, unions, and government have been able to undermine what
is good for America and Americans.
The RRR plan is good for the economy. It is
good for the people. It is good for jobs. And, for those corporations that want
to sign up to be American-centric, it is good for corporations. It is the
solution balm that offers a gutsy, unique, real, and workable path to getting
America back on its feet.
There is nothing like it anywhere else. All
we need is the resolve for the RRR plan to make us successful.
Kill The EPA: So
Humans Can Live!
The EPA Is Targeted by this Book!
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Kill the EPA: So that Humans Can Live
Press Release:
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
– December 20, 2011 - Brian Kelly announced today the availability of his new
book titled, Kill the EPA. Kelly subtitled the book, “So Humans Can
Live.” The subtitle is intended to convey the notion that Americans can be
assured that the EPA cares a lot more that your lawn and shrubs survive, than
that you survive the economic calamity in which we all live. Kelly would also bet
that the EPA has a lot more concern for the grubs eating the roots of your
grass and plants, and the whiteflies that are killing your personal tomato
gardens, than it does about keeping you and other Americans healthy. There is
this thought brought forth from studying environmentalists that the more humans
that are made healthy, the more the healthy humans are enabled to pollute the
environment and thus harm Mother Nature.
“If more Americans were willing to die
gracefully and quietly, and not force the environment to endure human
pollution, nature would surely have a better chance, and of course the EPA
would be extremely pleased,” Kelly said.
“But, do we Americans fund an EPA so that
more Americans should die because of its existence or so that more Americans
can live and live longer and longer? I hope it is the latter. Does the
EPA prefer that more Boll Weevils and other predators, who work against human
needs, should live instead, under the fully protected umbrella of a Mother
Nature based EPA mantra? The EPA is documented for its support of extending the
life of human predators so that the predators can live long lives. Is the EPA’s
love of plants and animals and its hatred for human polluters based on the fact
that the plant and animal world do not litter the highways?,
Kelly wonders.
“Who is it that throws out gum wrappers and
gummy bear boxes, juicy fruit containers, McDonald’s hamburger bags, and of
course the utterly worstloaded disposable diapers
from a miniature human, who simply cannot stop creating noise pollution, onto
our precious roadways? Moreover, who is it that burns fuels that are harmful to
the air just to keep warm and light the lights?. And,
now of course who is it that exhales CO2, a banned EPA substance?” Can it be
the human beings who live on Planet Earth?” Kelly asks.
“The EPA believes that Mother Nature’s
creatures of all kinds, harmful or not to mankind should be given the
advantage. They slot the animal kingdom with free rein and free dominion over
Mother Nature’s earth, and humans are quite annoying to their lot. Of course
their philosophy has no notion of God in their preaching as God creates humans
to have dominion over animals and plants, and God cares nothing about this
fictitious notion called Mother Nature. Would you not expect if God were given
a voice that the EPA would be the first government agency that the Lord would
eliminate?” Kelly opines.
Kelly says that “Nobody wants life to be so
bad that we cannot breathe, but we solved the major problems with US air way
back. And, no I am not talking about the airlines that took back all my earned
air miles credits simply because I had not flown in a year or two. And, of
course I no longer fly US Air.”
Clean air is very important. In the 1960’s,
for example, people on the freeways in Los Angeles could not breathe. With the
middle class enjoying economic liberty, America had become more affluent and
for the first time in American history, many families owned two cars or more,
and they had room in the garage and driveway for all of them.
Gas was cheap at 20 cents a gallon and nobody
seemed to care if the smoke out of the back of the car was white, clear, or
black, as long as the “wheels moved,” and the experience was “cool.” Yet, some
days, a human could not even see across the street.
In LA, the Interstate Highway System took on
the name, “freeways”. They were great but with overuse, they soon became smog
congested. Smog was a fog produced mostly from the smoke from car exhaust. It
looked like fog but it was a lot less healthy than water vapor.
One day the worst that could happen actually
happened. More than twenty people were killed on the freeways and none were
involved in an auto accident. They simply could not breathe the air with all
the smog. That's how bad it was. The media feasted on stories of California
smog and it was highlighted on the news every night. The nation was alarmed
since pollution had never before become a headline event. President Nixon and
Congress were forced to take action, and from this, a new entity was born. It
was called the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Before the EPA was fully staffed, Congress
passed the Clean Air Act! And poof, the air was clean. Well, not exactly! But
it was on its way to being clean. Today, Californians can see across the street
and even further. The air has improved so much that the experts say, [really]
totally clean air is within sight. Since the Clean Air Act, there has been a
lot of good breathing going on, especially in the Golden State. California in
fact, in all respects, is well ahead of the EPA standards today. The Clean Air
Act did its major job in record time. Yet, despite its success with minimal
staffing, the EPA continued to grow.
In the 1970’s the EPA was just a handful of
dedicated people and they had the Congress on their side to get the right
things done. These good natured lovers of nature camped in old wooden sided
station wagons nicknamed “Woodie” back then. Over
time, things have surely changed.
By 2012, from the simple Woodie,
and a pack of dedicated America-first employees, the EPA has grown to over
18,000 nature-first shock troops. They always seem upset about something you or
I are doing. The new EPA seems to hate mankind and it loves Mother Nature. They
blame humans for pollution and sins against nature, and when they choose among
a woman, a man, or a tree, the tree always seems to win.
President Obama has given this group of
nature-first zealots immense power to regulate “We the people,” even when the
US Congress disagrees. Today, for example, the EPA regulates silly stuff, such
as light bulbs, farm dust, manure, and other non essentials, and two-ply toilet
paper is definitely on their watch list. “Can we really afford this claptrap?”
Kelly inquires.
Kelly writes that “If left on its own, the
EPA would dictate a lights-out, energy deficient
America. A lights-on American is not a desire from this agency, which is
more concerned about limiting personal freedom and ignoring the cumulative
economic damage that their new regulations cause on the people and the economy
in general than doing anything good for anybody. “
“The EPA has never once said they were
hopeful that Americans would sustain or could gain jobs. So, perhaps this
agency is honest as none of its regulations appear to be tuned in to the fact
that Americans must work to survive. They are just inept and incapable of
helping America. Ironically, the EPA, who claim to be
environment first, fosters a Mercury-infested cfl
bulb over Edison’s incandescent. They well know that when breakage occurs, it
requires a haz-mat investigation. Is it possible that
the EPA itself has become corrupt?”Kelly examines this possibility in this
book.
“If the EPA was completely perfect in the
1970’s for all the great work that was done for clean air, it is now completely
imperfect. It is actually ruining the America we all love. The pendulum has
sprung and it is on its own, way out of control. This job preventing agency
must be shut down for at least the next 20 years!” Kelly states
About The Author: Brian W. Kelly is one of
America’s most outspoken and eloquent conservative spokesmen. Kelly wrote this
book to help Americans know how bad the EPA has become in preventing America
and Americans to live normal lives. Brian is frustrated with the devastation
that the EPA causes in so many areas of life that are intrinsically important
to humans. Americans, like most people, need heat, light, and food. The
EPA suggests that in providing that to Americans, nature is harmed. You make
the call yourself. Brian Kelly has already decided that it is time to Kill the
EPA and Kelly tells you the details of why and how in this book.
Kelly is the author of Taxation Without Representation, Obama’s Seven Deadly Sins,
Americans Need Not Apply, Healthcare Accountability, RRR,
and many other books. Like many Americans, Brian is fed up with this
progressive / Marxist agenda in Washington that places the needs of everyone
and everything, including Mother Nature in front of the needs of Americans.
Brian Kelly is running for the US Senate in
Pennsylvania as a Democrat against incumbent Robert P. Casey, Jr. His campaign
has made most of the chapters of this book, Kill the EPA available for
download for free on his campaign web site, www.kellyforussenate.com. Hard copy will soon be
available at this major distributor, www.bookhawkers.com. Please make press inquiries to info@letsgopublish.com.
A 2011 Best Seller:
Americans Need Not Apply!
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Irish Need not Apply! Syrians need not apply! Italians need not
apply! Spanish need not apply! Polish need not apply! How many of our parents
went through tough times in the USA finding bigotry instead of work when they
sought employment? You’ve heard the stories at the dinner table. Eventually our
parents all got jobs and America toned down its ethnic prejudices. Today,
however, all American citizens are feeling a new kind of prejudice in the
workplace. It’s an economic prejudice carried out by greedy businesses. It
cries out Americans Need Not Apply! You’re wasting your time. Please note, just
like it was not the Irish, the Syrians, the Italians, the Spanish or the Polish
who were the problem in our country’s infancy, the Mexicans, the Costa Ricans,
or the Guatamalans are not the problem today. It is
greedy businesses and a greedy policial class and in
this book, we will show you how and why.
Brian W. Kelly is one of America’s most outspoken and eloquent
conservative spokesmen. He is the author of Taxation Without
Representation, Obama’s Seven Deadly Sins, Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!, and many other books. Like many
Americans, Brian is fed up with a progressive liberal agenda in Washington that
places the needs of illegal foreign workers in front of the needs of Americans.
Endorsed by the Independence Hall Tea Party in 2010, Kelly ran for Congress
against a 13-term Democrat and, in a three way race he spent just $4500 of his
own money and, as a virtual unknown, he captured 17% of the vote. Kelly then
supported Republican challenger Lou Barletta, a conservative leader on
immigration policy, and helped him win a resounding victory in the general
election.
Kelly wrote this book to help Americans know what we can do to
force our government to regain control of our borders, ensure our national
security, keep our culture, enforce our laws, protect American jobs, and keep
all Americans from being overwhelmed by illegal foreign nationals with no
allegiance to the USA. Like you, Brian is frustrated with the devastation that
illegal immigration inflicts on law-abiding Americans and likewise he finds the
destitution brought upon the illegal class by corporate America to be the
greatest sin of all. He’s read the intelligence reports, has researched and
written about the topic for years, and he knows how intolerable illegal
immigration can be within our neighborhoods.
Today’s economic story can be spelled out in three words, Jobs Jobs Jobs. American workers are
losing their jobs and the big reason for that in the USA is that greedy
corporations and corrupt politicians use illegal aliens as a means to feather
their own nests. US corporations are the major perpetrators as they try to
compete with slave shops in Asia and hellholes across the world. In all of
these industries that reluctantly hire Americans, the workers are paid slave
wages.
Americans Need Not Apply is a book that needed to be written, but which no one had the
guts to write it until Brian Kelly took up the task. For all Americans, who
care about the USA, Kelly offers a compelling plan to keep us safe, and to get
Americans back to work. Few books are a must-read but Americans Need Not
Apply is at the top of the list.
A
Real “Hot Book”
Obama’s
Seven Deadly Sins
Not long ago, I found myself updating another
of my books, Taxation Without Representation,
originally penned in 2008 (Second edition
is now current) about then current domestic, political, and constitutional
issues intertwining the public consciousness. Immersed once again in that
vortex of all-too-familiar concerns about our government, I felt compelled to
add a few paragraphs about the Obama Presidency in light of the transparent
failures of the newly coronated Administration.
I wrote at length about more areas than I
expected and before I realized it, the update extended beyond what I would
consider a standard update. I knew then that by virtue of its length and
current relevance, this work was not a chapter, it
actually constituted a new stand-alone book. I am glad that you have selected
this book to join me on this journey to preserve American freedom.
In the eyes of Americans across the country,
from the blue of the mid-Atlantic to the red of the heartland, Barack Obama is
failing. Each passing day erodes his declining and oh-so-determinative poll
numbers. Said most simply, the man just doesn’t get it. He likely never will.
Barack Obama does not harbor a thought process anything remotely congruent with
the collective consciousness of those he represents, his constituents: US. More
and more people recognize his continual diatribes as those of an automaton,
glued to technology for his next thought
Not only is he losing on the domestic front
with long discredited socialist policies that would shock Woodrow Wilson, but
his domestic failures are not even offset by some countervailing strength in
military affairs. National defense is likewise weakening. Without a meaningful change
in Obama’s direction, his ways, fully enabled by a hard left Congress, will
doom the country. And I say this… as an optimist.
In his five years as President, he surely has
committed more sins than just these. But clearly the sins discussed in this book
are the seven deadly sins of Obama. And none can be taken lightly. Read this
book to learn how to deal with this grievous sinner.
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Another Unique Book:
Healthcare Accountability
Health Information Technology and Electronic
Accountability Records can make it happen?
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This book answers the questions you have been
asking to which there have been no answers
Most Americans are aware of the major battle
regarding health insurance and healthcare “reform” that was at its peak in the
fall of 2009. Congress was getting ready to spend more than a trillion dollars
on a government take-over of healthcare. The purpose of the take-over was,
purportedly, to improve the lives of just 17% of the people -- those that the
government determined to have no access to healthcare (a determination with
which many constituents tend to disagree).
What about those 17%? What do you think?
Should they be on the public tab forever regardless of their status in life? In
order to attain accountability, we must keep track of things. President Bush
and President Obama both agree that a database of citizen health records needs
to be compiled and it is, indeed, a very good idea. In such as system, there
would be records for each citizen in the United States. In this way, it would
be much easier to get a full picture of a patient in any medical provider’s
setting. Clearly this helps in all aspects of healthcare.
With all the rhetoric about reform, there is
little to no talk about accountability. This book not only broaches the
subject, it shows that it can be done and how it can be done in a lightly
technical but mostly amusing style. Americans need a logical and clear
blueprint that defines the terms for organization of online records and
discusses the objectionable entities that are positioned to “own” your health
data. Let’s keep them forever locked out.
I hope you enjoy reading this book and that
you will remain vigilant and take the actions necessary to ensure that all the
people as individuals, and not the government in groupthink, determine the fate
of US healthcare. Not one person whose life is saved would deny the people of
the US their just payback once they are well. It just makes good sense. Learn
how inside! I wish you the best!”
Sincerely. Melissa L. Sabol, Editor in Chief
Yes, There are many other
books to enjoy:
Taxation
Without Representation Second Edition
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Taxation Without Representation: Can the US Avoid Another
“Boston Tea Party?”
This is the first Patriotic Book that Brian
wrote, and he liked it so much that he updated it just a few years ago with new
information after Hillary Clinton had learned who Barack Obama actually was,
and why she had to fear him. Mr. Obama is now our President for about five
years. How does that make you feel?
Just as in 1776, today’s Americans are
overtaxed and lacking genuine representation.
Brian Kelly wrote this book because our
representatives, both nationally and locally, have abandoned their duties as
agents of the people and they have forgotten our role as fundamental voices in
a constitutional democracy.
Twenty consecutive years of non-responsive presidencies,
unprotected borders, and a Congress with more blame to go around than
accomplishments, yields a catastrophic failure of a report card.
In this book, Kelly illustrates how public
servants are so overwhelmed with self interests, special interests, the
interests of corporations and the interests of other countries that they have
no time to work for the people. He eviscerates, with cogence and gusto, the veneer
of “honor” cloaking some of our nation’s most dishonorable public servants.
Something went critically awry between 1776
and now. After depicting the problem, your author unearths a cornucopia of
political trickeries aimed at taking our money, including a litany of
“creative” taxes imposed against U.S. citizens.
He then embarks on a no-holds barred safari
through some of America’s most crippling domestic problems, fueled by
representative negligence, corporate power, and greed. He questions the modern
role of Unions. From there, your author explains the nation’s emergent problems
of visa abuse, the selling out of American jobs, and the unhealthy impact of
illegal foreign nationals on the lives of American citizens.
He explores the lack of free and honest
elections, recounting recent judicial decisions and the push for fraud-prone
voting machines. Despite its grave insights, the book animates at all times a
spirit of hope and impetus for change which can help direct all efforts to
avoid another “Boston Tea Party.”
“I hope you enjoy reading this book and that
you will remain vigilant and take the actions necessary to ensure that this
experiment in democracy, the United States of America, can continue persevering
for centuries upon centuries.
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What is the problem with US Jobs?
This book helps us all get the message
Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
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Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Where Did They Go? How Can We Get Them
Back?
More Americans are out of work today than any
other time since the Great Depression. In fact, many label this period in our
history as The Great Recession. The President and the Congress not only are
doing nothing, but by spending, spending, and more spending, they are literally
chasing more and more jobs away. If Congress would only go home for good, this
thing might solve itself. Congress has only made it worse. And the taxes they
plan will put the economy in another tailspin.
On March 21, 2010 while having promised to
solve the Jobs problem, Congress passed the biggest government expansion of all
time in 2700 pages of legislation. Nancy Pelosi climbed the fence,
pole vaulted in, and finally parachuted in with a huge gavel and a huge
mouthful of saliva. Her actions made sure that Americans were sickened by the
affliction of this health bill. Like most other legislation of the 111th
Congress, this too is a jobs killer. Pelosi and her lackeys, including
Pennsylvania’s Congressman Paul Kanjorski have done more harm than any Congress
in the history of the United States.
They want you to forget about Jobs! Jobs!
Jobs! There are no jobs! The situation is even bleaker as nobody in Congress
finds the issue worthy enough to discuss. Nobody is working to create jobs in
America. Nothing worth having is easy. Would it not be nice to have a
capitalist (not Socialist or Marxist) country in which legislators want the
people to be employed rather than be dependent on the state? Where is the help?
This book first takes a wary look at the problem, and then an even more wary
look at government’s downright reluctance to solve the Jobs problem. Following
this set of essays the book then turns its attention to some workable solutions
to help get US out of the doldrums. It is all doable and it is all explained
right here!
I hope you enjoy reading this book and that
you will remain vigilant and take the actions necessary to ensure that all the
people, and not the government in group-think, determine the fate of US
workers. Not one person who has lost a job believes that government should
ignore their plight. Congress is making life so tough that many unemployed feel
they may never get back to work.
There is a reason for all this and you can
learn it and learn what to do about it by beginning with page 1 of this book.
It is time somebody wrote a book like this to help the American People rally
around the notion that in a choice between bad government and good jobs, bad
government does not stand a chance.
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Brian Kelly’s Technical
Books Follow:!
This Book first
book (immediately) below is Kelly’s newest technical book. His main focus today
is patriotic Books. However, he is still asked to speak about his AS/400 (IBM i) Platform books... Any purchase of the books below are
most appreciated and they help finance Brian’s important work.
Lets Go Publish! produces books
from various authors including the complete works of Brian W.
Kelly. At the present time, Mr. Kelly's books are our primary focus. If
you have an interest in writing a book for Lets Go Publish! feel free to send us
a note at info@letsgopublish.com.
Since 1982, with the introduction of the
popular Ballinger / Harper Collins book titled The Personal Computer Buyers
Guide, written along with his best friends, Dennis J. Grimes, Brian W. Kelly
has written forty-eight books and many technical articles hosted by IT
Jungle, MC Press, News/400, and other
outlets.
In 2008, Kelly wrote the groundbreaking book
titled Taxation Without Representation, which was the first book
in the new millenium to compare the acts of our
National Legislative Body (Our Honorable Lot) as akin to the colonists plight
in the late 1700's, which prompted the Boston Tea Party and slogans such as
"No Taxation Without Representation!!!."
Taxation Without
Representation (edition I and Edition II) is written by a normal human being—Brian
W. Kelly, and it is published by a very small publishing house, though it is
available at AMAZON.COM and www.bookhawkers.com. For years the book had been available at IT Jungle and MC Press.
It helps to note that its title, not just a
few key words within the book, actually is Taxation Without Representation, subtitled, "Can the U.S. Avoid Another Boston
Tea Party?" And, so, you can
understand why Brian began writing for the patriotic book readers and has not
written as many tech books as in the past.
Taxation Without Representation by the
way provides a full copy of the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights and
other founding documents in its appendices.
If you want to buy any Brian W. Kelly book, please go to the www.bookhawkers.com site. When bookhawkers.com sells books for me,
since the processing is done by Amazon, it is always done right.
We are working with a new company that is not up yet called WWW.Booksnippers.com. It is being set up as we dialogue to be able to give chapters of
books away as well as make book chapters in popular LGP books available for
downloading as eBooks and eChapters. In the
meantime, if you would like to begin reading Brian’s most recent book for free,
take this link to Conservative Action Alerts.
http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2013/07/marco-rubio-explains-the-gang-of-eight-tyrants-plan/
Here is Kelly’s newest tech book from LGP:
The
IBM I RPG and RPGIV Tutorial & Lab Exercises!
A Combination Tutorial and Lab Book Designed for IBM i RPG & RPGIV based Application Development
Finally, there is an affordable RPG and RPGIV tutorial
for System i RPG & RPGIV programming. It is much less
expensive than other available self-study packages because it was built first
to be a lab guide. It is designed to help students learn RPG without going
broke.
Additionally, this book is designed to be used by
Colleges and Universities as an RPG/RPGIV course Lab book for RPG. The book is
packaged to be used with an IBM i library designed to
make learning as easy as possible. The book also has an optional set of
“talking” PowerPoint slide presentations that are based on the popular System i Pocket RPG & RPGIV Guide (text book). These slides
can be an effective lecture series when used with or without a Moodle CMS. Besides all that there is a sample syllabus as
well as optional quizzesto make the learning
environment complete.
In addition to the 1-2-3 type tutorial and lab exercises
in the tutorial/lab guide, it also provides lecture material that not only
helps you learn the language, the material helps you get your labs done right -
screens designed, programs compiled, programs executed, and output examined.
All IBM i Lab objects are
included in the downloadable material standard with this book package. The Labs
are well done and well documented and they are built so that you can complete
them successfully by visualizing the solution. Since nobody likes to key
programs from scratch, the lab exercises are already typed with enough
important material redacted to provide painless learning. You learn programming
rather than typing. The capstone lab is almost 500 statements of RPGIV
learning. By the time you finish the last lab, you will not be a better typist
but you will have learned RPG / RPGIV.
There are many RPG books and expensive self studies but
there has never been an RPG tutorial/lab guide as affordable and as well-done
as this. You won’t want to put down this comprehensive guide to learning IBM i RPG/RPGIV now that you’ve got your hands on it.
Considering the age of RPG, this book is almost 50 years overdue. In today’s IT
landscape, most IBM i System i
shops support both RPG and ILE RPG. Besides its easy-to read down-home writing
style, the major benefit of this book is that it is built to be a learning tool
and thus it can help anyone whose mission it is to educate/train new RPG &
ILERPG (RPGIV) programmers. Programmers are responsible for maintaining andextending the RPG programs that run businesses across
the world.
Programming in RPG helps get business applications
running sooner. Using this tutorial/lab guide help students, neophyte and
novices learn the language sooner. For those with a non-IBM i
IT background, this book has enough exercises to help you qualify for an entry
level position upon faithful
completion.
It’s in there...
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non-technical alike:
Chip Wars
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Brian Kelly a former Senior IBM Systems
Engineer wrote many technical books and then as he got older began to write
patriotic books to help America with it struggles with communism and socialism.
Mr. Kelly would be pleased to have you make a request about finding a book not
on the commercial sites since the three tech sites, IT Jungle, MC Press, and
News/400, aka 29th Street Press, aka Network/400. The last source
with all the aka’s appears not available since there
are no hits. All three of the former distributors of Brian’s books have either
gotten out of the business or have chosen to distribute only those titles from
their stable of authors. As an independent author, Kelly did not qualify.
IT Jungle was www.itjungle.com was the best source for
information but they too were forced for business reasons to not sell books.
Thus, Mr. Kelly’s books are no longer available at this prestigious site.
All is not lost, however. Now, you may go to www.bookhakers.com, and www. checkoutking.com
to get some or all of Brian Kelly’s technical and or patriotic books.
When you do not find what you want it more
than likely is still available. Write to info@letsgopublish.com and we will do our best to make it available
to you.
Kelly says the reason he never sold his own
books is because he liked writing books a lot more than selling them. Now, Mr. Kelly’s own company. Lets Go Publish! www.letsgopublish.com is pleased to offer all of the Kelly
Collection. Most of them are on www.bookhawkers.com
Thank you for your interest.
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The All Everything Operating System
Lets Go Publish books written by Brian W. Kelly
are available at www.bookhawkers.com or www.checkoutking.com.
Is the “Best Deal In Town,” the best deal?
The All-Everything Operating System
Book
Description:
Sometimes the best deal in town is a bona fide steal and you’re the one robbed.
Any “low cost” server that fails more often than its equally low business value
would justify its worth no more than a bushel of pencils. The deceptive allure
of low pricing has played bandit in more than a few episodes of server
pillaging.
Fortunately, cost is no longer the paramount factor, now displaced by business
value and resiliency. Small and large businesses alike are fed up with their
systems’ chronic unavailability. There no longer exists the luxury of indulging
the whims and caprices of every unresponsive system or lingering down
situation.
Resiliency is the new paradigm. The new
business world operates in an exponentially more real time fashion.
Transactions and information flow with the currents of broadband. Transactions
execute immediately. Tolerance for downtime has dissipated. What can a
business, of any size, use to stay afloat? The all-everything operating system,
IBM i, is the best answer, short of a pencil.
Trust the Casinos, who currently use IBM i. Any doubts of their pressing need for systems
reliability?
In IBM i, the company has made the finest, most
architecturally elegant, most usable, most productive, most affordable, and
least frustrating operating system of all time. Its IBM Power System, driven by
IBM i, is a “mainframe for the masses” because it can
be as large and big as a mainframe but it also fits just as effectively into a
small business. It’s highly secure, productive, granular, and affordable and
eschews the operational impediments that would diminish revenue, regulatory
compliance, and corporate reputation. The all-everything operating system is
designed to resist viruses and run smoothly at all times. Numerous customer
testimonials aver that and much more.
This book walks you through the story of this unique operating system from its
inception until today. It presents its underlying superiority, its rapid
customer acceptance, development history, and its probable future. Inside, its
unique architecture and interactions are discussed in easily accessible
layman’s terms. Upon finishing this book, you will understand why IBM is proud
to have built the finest operating system in the universe and why it deserves
the name, “all-everything” operating system. Its manifold improvements and
value implications are condensed here in a single collection of pages.
With a Foreword by Dr. Frank G. Soltis, IBM i
Chief Scientist
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The All Everything Machine
The All-Everything Machine is all
about IBM's best computer product. You will learn how this "secret"
stealth-level unit from IBM Rochester has more advanced computer science
notions built-in than even the most famous advanced computer research projects
of the day including guru Jonathan Shapiro's EROS and its latter day
incarnations.
LGP publishes some hard
nosed factual books and we also publish some very nice technical books
for your learning enjoyment.
There is no better kept secret in
the computer industry than the new IBM Power Computers running the IBM I
Operating System. Another secret of which most modern computerists are unaware
is that IBM makes the finest, most architecturally elegant, most usable, most
productive, and most affordable computer system of all time. That system,
again, is officially known as the IBM I for Power Systems. As one would speculate correctly, it is the
IBM Power System running the latest version of the IBM i
operating system. I like to say it is
the all-everything system running the all-everything operating system.
This
hardware / software phenomenon is really the all-everything machine. Though it
has had numerous recent rebirths with each release of the hardware and the
operating system, its advanced underpinnings go back to IBM advanced research
projects from over 40 years ago. That's an awful long time for any company to keep
such a secret, but my speculation is that at some point in the future, IBM will
opt to divulge its secret and begin to make money for its stockholders on such
a huge investment in technology.
Not only has IBM kept
the secret, but with the all-everything machine, it has kept the lead. That is
noteworthy but not quite as noteworthy as the fact that the machine
architecture that was conceived and delivered 30 years ago is still the best
that anybody has ever built. Using a 40-year-old
"nobody else can afford to build one" architecture, IBM continues its
technology lead by far compared with all the other machines of today, including
the mainframe.
One would have to
conclude that IBM is 40 years ahead of its competition and that's before you
factor in that during the 40 years since its conception, IBM has not stood
still. Each and every year, more and more capability and facility has been
built into the all-everything machine. Now, I am not suggesting that the
all-everything machine is 60 years ahead of the competition, but that is where
the math logically takes you.
If I had never worked
with other computers--mainframes, 1130s, System/360 Model 20s, Unix boxes, PCs, and so forth--I probably would not have
appreciated what a solid system the Power Server family has been right from the
start. The Rochester, Minnesota-built small business computer line from which
the Power Sserver with IBM I OS was spawned was
unusually easy to work with. In every other early computer platform, there were
cryptic codes to decipher and continual puzzles to solve just to get the
machine turned on. Programming was and still largely is even worse.
Of them all, at least
before I worked with Unix, I felt that the mainframe
was the most cryptic of the cryptic. Technicians carried special green cards
with codes and translations galore in order to program properly on a mainframe.
At the time I learned it, I was convinced that the mainframe had been slapped
together by bit-head engineers who expected just bit-head engineers to work
with it. Real people need not apply. Even today, I have great respect for the
technical acumen of the professionals who know the mainframe.
When IBM introduced the
first ancestor of today's Power Server with IBMi OS
as the System/3 in 1969, it was remarkable. It was as if IBM had sent all the
geeks home that day. There were no strange codes that were indecipherable. No
IBM green "HEX" card was needed. Programming the System/3 was almost
as easy as speaking in English. Maybe not that easy; but it was easy. IBM had
succeeded in using high tech engineers to build a system for regular people. I
don't know how they did it, but they did.
It was just a start, but
it was a good start. From that moment on, the Rochester style of computing
became contagious. Rochester wares were the most popular computers in small
businesses for decades. Each and every Rochester computer was built on the
principle of large system function with small business system ease of use. Each
model was substantially better than the preceding machine and IBM business
customers just gobbled them up and their businesses grew unimpeded by
technology and reboots.
Today, the IBM I for
Power Systems total machine is positioned to be sold
in small businesses, medium businesses and even up to the largest businesses
in the world. As a family of computers, with various capacities and costs,
the all-everything machine
handles workloads from the size of just bigger than Mom and Pop
organizations to the Fortune 500. IBM has recently labeled this complex a
"mainframe for the masses" because it gets as big as a mainframe
but it can be used effectively by a small business. |
This book walks you
through the story of this powerful system from the very beginning until today
2005. To read about IBM I technology after 2005, feel free to look up The
All-Everything Operating System which chronicles the IBM i
Operating System after it was joined with the IBM Power Systems that can also
run Unix and Linux.
In addition to telling a
powerful, compelling story, the book describes in layman's terms the technology
and computer architecture innovations that are part of every system
combination. When you finish this book, you will understand why IBM is proud to
have built the finest computer system in the world, and you may just find a
place for a particular size one of these rascals in your own business.
For the most part, this
book reads as a series of 20 essays. Each of 20 chapters is built as a short
story unto itself, with the sum of the chapters telling the story of the all-everything
machine. For the most part, you can pick up any chapter and read it without
having to read a prior chapter. However, you may want to read the early
chapters first to get a perspective on what the Power Systems running IBM I are
all about and their relevance in IBM history.
This book presents the
IBM all-everything machine, its underlying superiority, its rapid customer
acceptance, the IBM development history, and the IBM all-everything machine's
probable future. This is not meant to be a technical book at a detailed level.
It is written for those who have some or little technical background, who may
know lots or nothing about an eServer i5 machine or its predecessors. However,
there are a few chapters in which I do get just a little bit technical, hoping
that I can show the reader in reasonably simple terms how the i5 is a special
machine with a long and successful tradition.
When you finish reading
this book, regardless of your technical competency, you will have a good idea
of a number of unique computer science architectural attributes from which any
computer system, from any vendor, can benefit. You will also understand how
those attributes can help any company, such as yours, preserve its software
investment and permit the upgrading of hardware and software without forcing a
rewrite or a re-build, or a re-purchase. You will learn that not only has no
other computer company, of software or hardware heritage, ever created a
machine with all of these advanced architectural attributes, no computer company
has yet to be able to adopt even one of these powerful notions into their
computer servers of today.
This book is written,
then, to teach you what is unique about the All-Everything Machine, and why the
parts that are unique, are also good, not bad; and why you should demand these
facilities in any machine you ever choose to use for your business. I believe
that the computer system (server) actually does make a difference in the
overall value of IT to your business, and there is no system that has ever been
made that delivers value better than the all-everything machine. In this book,
you will learn why!
Note: You can
order The All-Everything Machine and other Lets Go Publish!
Books through www.bookhawkers.com
When he wrote this book,
this was the biography used for Brian W. Kelly as a staff writer for IT Jungle
(www.itjungle.com)
Brian Kelly retired as a
30-year IBM Midrange SE in 1999, having cut his eye teeth in 1969 on the
System/3 and later with CCP. While with IBM, he was also a Certified Instructor
and a Mid-Atlantic Area Designated Specialist. Kelly takes pride in having
announced the AS/400 at Marywood University in June, 1988. When IBM began to
move its sales and support to Business Partners, he formed Kelly Consulting in
1992 as an IT education and consulting firm. Kelly developed numerous AS/400
professional courses over the years that range from soup to nuts. He has
written dozens of books and numerous magazine articles and about current IT
topics; he has also developed and taught a number of college courses and is
currently an adjunct member of the graduate faculty at Marywood University in
Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he also serves as iSeries technical advisor to
the IT faculty.
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Can the AS/400 Survive IBM?
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Editor's Note: Brian
Kelly, a well-known speaker and consultant in the OS/400 market, launched a
book in May, 2004 called Can the AS/400 Survive IBM?. This book pulls no punches about the history of the OS/400
platform and the things that Kelly feels IBM needed to do back then to
rejuvenate the platform. A message is only as useful as the breadth of its
audience, and shortly after its publishing, Kelly gave IT Jungle (this
newsletter) permission
to excerpt one of the chapters of the book to stir up the debate over what IBM
should do. Here is "Chapter 32, Suggestions for Improvement"
from Can the AS/400 Survive
IBM?
You can get a sense of
what is needed in the AS/400 line of computers by reading this excerpt.
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Chapter 32
At this point in the
book, Can the AS/400 Survive IBM? it is no secret that IBM's biggest AS/400 problem is that it
fails to market the machine. The company has restructured its business as a
services and software supplier, and that is at the heart of its problem.
Hardware, including the AS/400 does not count for much anymore. Some of us
think that a little care and feeding and marketing could have and could still
help that. If you take a trip to IBM's main Web site, www.ibm.com, it is
difficult to find anything about its hardware products, but there sure is a lot
about solutions. Though solutions may include hardware, the primary ingredients
are software and tailoring services.
"Solutions" is
a euphemism for the things that IBM thinks customers buy when they are shopping
for a computer system. IBM thinks it sells solutions in today's world. As
strange as it may be, the IBM Company does not sell application solutions
software. It is purposely not in that marketplace. It is not in that business.
So, why would solutions be important?
IBM sells hardware,
middleware, and services. The company has a dotted line relationship to its
independent Business Partners and it depends on their good will as to whether
IBM hardware is included in their partners' software solution.
IBM would like to think
that its Business Partners propose its products and only its products; however,
this is not the case. I have been in a number of sales situations where these
"loyal;" AS/400 solutions providers will gladly switch to a Unix or Windows solution if the customer balks at the price
of an AS/400. They say "it is the same software, why not run it on the least expensive machine." The moral is
that just like the Computerland stores of yesteryear,
IBM's Business Partners are not in business for IBM's benefit; they do not sell
just IBM; and they are quite independent.
IBM loves to sell all
kinds of services, as you would see from a trip to its Web site. Since most of
IBM's business is services and software, the company has apparently decided
that hardware is now in the drag-along category. Years ago, IBM would sell
hardware as a solution. Software products and services were the drag-along business.
Now it is completely the opposite.
Though IBM still [2004] makes
about $30 billion in hardware, until this year, the number has been dropping.
Right now, its $30 billion hardware business is still integral to the company's
success. But, in the long term, as services and software revenues climb,
hardware will have less and less of an impact. The hardware business has become
less important to IBM and the company simply has not been successful in
maintaining its hardware revenue or market share. In many ways the reason for
its decreased sales is because hardware is just not an area in which the new
IBM pays attention.
In late 2003, IBM
announced that its software division would focus its solutions on vertical
marketplaces as opposed to selling software to whomever
will buy it. Since the vertical strategy is already employed in Rochester, this
is not expected to affect the AS/400. However, I think that it will. When a
lumber company comes to IBM for its one stop shopping, IBM's Software Division
will direct them to a software package for the industry as well as try to
ensure that some of what is on the IBM software truck is sold.
Since the AS/400
software truck is not as full as the other trucks, and since its most important
AS/400 middleware comes with the machine, human nature says that if the
software division has a prospect, it is going to sell what it's got on its
truck. Since they get less compensation for an AS/400 sale, the AS/400 will not
be sold. Case closed. Therefore, you can bet none of these companies who
contact the software division will ever hear about the AS/400--other than
perhaps an acknowledgment that it is more expensive than Unix
and Windows.
The Grim Reaper
They say that in life
you reap what you sew. Unless IBM re-acknowledges that it is in the hardware
businesses before it fritters its server business away, just as it did the PC
business, the AS/400 and its hardware sisters and stepmother will be gone
before the company knows it. When that happens, the discussion about how to save
the AS/400 will be moot.
Though some may argue
with me about it, the best thing that can happen to the IBM AS/400 is for
Microsoft to buy the whole business from IBM or for IBM to donate OS/400 [now
IBM i] to the Open Source Foundation. There would be
no question that Bill Gates would highlight the product if it were his and he'd win the small and large server business by
killing both Unix and the mainframe. Eventually, he'd put a GUI on the AS/400
and would drive the box with Windows-like icons. In addition to making AS/400
customers happy this would make Microsoft happy also.
Microsoft's internal IT
staff would not have to be embarrassed anymore about running (or having run)
the business on the AS/400 platform. Besides peace internally, Bill Gates would
finally have a highly scalable and reliable platform upon which to run Windows.
Intel need not apply. Don't rule it out!
A donation to the open
source community would help IBM in a number of ways. AS/400 customers would get
off IBM's back because the software would be open and free. IBM would not have
to bear the cost of maintaining OS/400. The Open Source OS/400 may be tweaked
to run on many different hardware platforms, including all of IBM's servers.
Short of action from
Microsoft, or the donation route, if IBM chooses to save its AS/400 product
line, this chapter has a number of suggestions. It starts with the top nine
things the company can do and then generally discusses the problems that some
of the nine solutions would address. The suggestion list continues in Chapter
34, with another set of suggestions for how to attract new blood to the AS/400
and how to get them prepared for training. If IBM is ready to sell, sell, sell,
there is no doubt that the AS/400 can be saved.
To the IBM Vault?
What can IBM do to
prevent the AS/400 from finding its way into the IBM vault.
[Think of the Disney vault] Vestiges
from IBM's glorious and ignominious past are displayed in the vault. For
example, you'll find the Series/1, the 305 RAMAC, the DataMaster,
the 8100, the 1620, the DisplayWriter, and the Ford Edsel? Ford has its Edsel
there because it did not have a vault and Disney would not take it.
Unlike the Disney vault,
the IBM vault has an entrance but no exit. Products that go to the vault don't
ever get taken out for a new look – even after the kids that worked with them
have grown up. The list of suggestions to IBM then is intended to help keep the
AS/400 from getting tossed into the vault along with the dead products of
yesteryear.
In one form or another I
would suppose that others have given these recommendations to IBM over the last
ten years, but perhaps not all together as the list below and the education
list in Chapter 34. When I read this list I say to myself, "of course,
that will save the AS/400…yes, that's a good one, etc." But I am powerless
and you are powerless other than to suggest. Suggestions or no suggestions, in
the end it is IBM who must decide to what level its AS/400 has a role in its
company. Based on the IBM view, the AS/400 may hit the vault or not.
AS/400 Partial
Improvement List
1. Tell the world about AS/400 reliability and dependability.
Since most AS/400 users believe that the most important part of an AS/400 is
its reliability and dependability, IBM should tell somebody about it. Marketing
is not about best kept secrets.
2. Tell the world about the marvels of AS/400 integration. Since
IBM thinks that the most important part of the AS/400 is its integration
characteristics (as in iSeries), again, tell somebody about it, and begin to
integrate the many standalone products, such as WebSphere to keep the "i" in iSeries from meaning "disintegrated."
3. Position the AS/400
as a new account business computer. Since no business expands without some new
accounts, and new accounts don't come calling by themselves, again, IBM should
tell somebody that they want new accounts and that they can sustain new
accounts. A new accounts S.W.A.T. team would help in this regard.
4. Create a new baby
sized AS/400 server / personal machine. Since the PowerPC chip line is so
dominant in non-PC circles (almost all chips in game toys are IBM's), the
company should use this chip to create an AS/400 style machine to sell to new
accounts. There is really no reason to import OS/400 to the Intel platform if
this is done.
Again, if IBM were to
build it, the company would have to tell somebody about its new affordable
AS/400 server and development machine. The machine should be sold as an
integrated, affordable package at about $2,000.00 or less.
5. Give AS/400s away to
students and to colleges. IBM should have a lottery once a week, on a different
campus every week, in which they give away one or two small AS/400s to a
college student and the host college. To qualify for the lottery, a student
might be asked to bid a dollar and all the dollars would go to the institution
or to Student Government.
If IBM were to create
this inexpensive AS/400 I would recommend giving at least one to every college
and community college as a good will gesture during its kickoff period. Of
course, the company would also be compelled to tell the colleges why the AS/400
should have value to them. To do this, again, IBM would have to let somebody
know about the system, as in all other scenarios. Additionally, the company
would have to let the general public know that these little AS/400 boxes are
coming to a college close to home so the public has the opportunity to learn
about the alive and well AS/400.
6. Add a standard GUI to
the AS/400 operating system box (MAC OS). Since the AS/400 looks just like the
tired old legacy system that Microsoft and the trade press
have it painted to be, IBM should buy the Mac GUI from Apple and adapt
it as the GUI for the AS/400. The MAC and the AS/400 both use PowerPC processor
technology. Academia would automatically like the AS/400 since they love the
Mac. By the way, the Mac and the Apple PowerBook use the same family of chips
as the AS/400. Again, IBM would have to tell somebody about this.
An alternative would be
to rebuild the OS/400 front end to use an HTML or better yet, an XML driven
GUI. The AS/400 command structure could also be rescued to participate in the
resolution of the commands.
7. Create a hybrid
futuristic Mac/AS/400 PC. Along with Apple, IBM should build a PC that has the
outward look and feel of a Mac and the inner elegance and full application
facilities of an AS/400. If IBM were to perform this magic, it would create
another PC revolution. To ensure success, Apple would have to market the
device.
8. Take advice from Mark
Twain and announce that the AS/400 is not dead and that it is not even tired.
Since no business wants to install a server or even upgrade one that is dead,
and the trade press has declared that the AS/400 and green screens are dead,
and IBM behaves as if the AS/400 actually is dead, the company, like Mark Twain
should announce that the AS/400 is not dead and that the reports of its death
have been greatly exaggerated. Again, IBM must tell someone about this.
9. Add generic aliases
to the IBM server line, making the AS/400 the "IBM Business System."
Rather than have IBM embarrass itself by discarding the eServer umbrella, add a
generic primary differentiator name to the eServer brand so that the system can
be known by a generic alias. Generic aliases for the other systems are already
unofficially in place--IBM Mainframe Server; IBM Unix
Server; IBM PC (x86) Server. The IBM Business System or even the IBM Business
Server moniker would properly position the AS/400 and clear up its primary
purpose.
10. etc.
The list continues.
The Absence of AS/400 Awareness
In order to offer
suggestions for improvement, you must examine the problems
that the AS/400 platform is currently experiencing that makes it an
at-risk-system in the 21st century. Most of my peers with whom I communicate
share the thought that IBM's biggest problem with its AS/400 line of computers,
besides IBM per se, is buyer awareness. Other than the AS/400 professionals,
the IT folks who manage, develop, implement, and operate AS/400 systems on a
regular basis, there is almost no awareness of the product.
There is even less
awareness of its new pseudonym, iSeries.
Interestingly, this is
not much different than the early days of computing when only the insiders knew
what an IBM 1130, a System/3, or a System/38 might be like. In the early days,
very few people knew anything about any computer, other than those people
working directly with computers in their businesses. That is not the case
today. More people know about computers today than those who do not know about
them. More importantly, ordinary people know computers today from things they
do and see outside of their workplace. Just like the days gone by, not many
people, other than those directly involved, know anything about the big back
room computers that do the companies work every day.
Who are the people then
who know little about their computer at work but are very aware of computers in
the rest of their lives? You already know who they are. They are my neighbors
and they are your neighbors. Four out of five of them are likely to have at
least one computer at home and nineteen out of twenty are likely to have a
close relative with one. This same percentage of people is on the Internet
every day or so, looking for an email from a son or daughter or parent or other
loved one, or perhaps an acknowledgment that their last big purchase, such as a
digital camera, CD, or cell phone has been shipped.
These people are
Firemen, Accountants, Nurses, Police, Food Service Workers, Maintenance
Personnel, Doctors, Plumbers, CEOs, Store Owners, Sales People, Secretaries,
Street Cleaners, Teachers, Linemen, Clergy, Cable Workers, Bankers, other
government workers, other school workers, and other industry workers. Please
don't forget the retirees, because many of us continue to persevere in the
job marketplace. Of course we can't forget the computer geeks and the
students from high school to college to graduate school. All of these people,
you and I included; know much more about computers in our home lives than people
ever did before. Opinion's Count. But? … |
The Living Room CEO
You don't have to be
technical to understand this. But the computer mindshare battle - no matter
what size computer--must be fought in the living room. The living room CEO
becomes the boardroom CEO again every Monday morning. They are one and the same
people. People can be taught the meaning of PC, Unix,
Mainframe and AS/400 in simple terms by IBM ads if IBM chooses to fight. IBM,
you got that? "In the living room!" And down
the road, maybe IBM can actually set the stage for something that gets IBM
machines back on the desktop, and in people’s minds.
Brian Kelly is an IT consultant who heads Kelly Consulting, a
practice based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Brian is a well-known author
and an AS/400 and iSeries expert. E-mail:info@letsgopublish.com. To read
this article in its entirety, go to http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh100404-story04.html
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