Re: INFINIUM PURCHASE

You are absolutely correct that IBM is providing lots of technological
improvements to the iSeries.

But the anonymous critic is also quite correct that many iSeries
people, even the really smart ones, behave like Luddites.  The
percentage of iSeries shops that have significant ILE use is pitifully
small.  The fraction of programmers using the _FREE_ CODE400 tool is
minuscule.  How many of us are using the web serving and CGI
capabilities?  Who among us use the trigger or referential integrity
features of DB/400?  To our detriment, we get stuck in these ruts, and
need to get kicked in the head to get out of them.

Take care!
Tom

>>> macwheel99@sigecom.net 10/29/02 09:27AM >>>

>Most of these customers are much like the BPCS
>customer in that they will stick with the iSeries and
>not bother with new technology.

I not want to get in an arguement here, just point out that customers
who
stick with the iSeries do get new technology from IBM - there is a
constant
stream of new capabilities from a box that has a lot more stability
and
security and scalability than the competition.

-
Al Macintyre (macwheel99@sigecom.net via Eudora)
Al's diary http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/
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