Re: IBM Spin Doctors on AS/400 Marketing

The date  and the plea  sound much a kin to what we hear today.  There is a
 real difference with todays.

At 12:30 AM 11/5/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Glenn Ericson wrote:
>> 
>> John
>> would  you  believe I  keyed in CL and came up  with  this article  Vs.
>> ZERO  for AS/400 or AS400 search.  Of all things  educational
>> 
>>                            Goodbye Minis
>>                                  Alan Radding
>>                                   (05/16/94)
>> 
>>     Anyone pursuing a career
>> 
>>     in minicomputers should develop alternative skills. Although some
>> vendors still seem
>>     promising for the short term, the traditional minicomputer as we know
>> it represents a dead
>>     end.
>
>Check the date.  This article could have been written twice as long ago,
>or yesterday and no one would have known the difference.
>
>The computer press has been predicting the demise of midrange systems
>for decades replaced by mainframes or micro's, whichever is in vogue at
>the time.
>
>and the 400 jus' keeps plugging along, improving, sometimes leading
>technologically, and making those who own and/or develope on it, money
>and happiness.
>
>there's an old saying... "those who can't do, teach."
>
>I'd like to exend that to wit....
>
>"those who can't teach, write magazine articles"
>
>Rick
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