Re: AS/400 vs PC as a server

I'd agree with him, excepting that it hasn't happened yet, and really
isn't any closer now than it has been for sometime.  There always seems to
be "problems" that creep in; file-sharing, record-locking, database
administration, security, hardware conflicts, changing software bundles,
accelerated changes (how would you like to be just finishing your 10-year
development program of your business MIS department, based on Win 3.1?)
and the unreliabilty of the hardware and operating systems. Rebooting
www.microsoft.com throws off a few thousands of users who then have to
start over.  That's no big deal.  But if they were on the payroll and the
PC had to be rebooted as often as www.microsoft.com, the boss would go
ballistic.  Reliabilty just isn't there.  Neither is response times when
there is file sharing.  75 people throwing new records into QuickBooks all
day isn't anywhere near ready to happen.


In <s3b38bb3.059@dchc.org>, on 06/27/97 
   at 09:45 AM, Rich Brearley <BrearlRI@dchc.org> said:

#I was talking to an associate yesterday on the life of midrange
#computers.  His view was that the PCS will take over the industry and
#there will be no use for Midrange or Mainframes.

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