AS/400 hearts and minds

[Tim McCarthy <twmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AS evidence that IBM has lost the AS/400 hearts and minds war, I wanted to
enter this snippet from an article on Mainframes in yesterday's New York
Times:

> "Big Iron", as the large central computer systems are known in industry >
jargon, has long been the bedrock of IBM's business. But in recent years  >
the kind of software applications that companies call "mission critical", >
like general ledger or human resources management, have increasingly been >
deployed on large servers - powerful machines made by Sun Microsystems Inc.
> or the Hewlett-Packard Company, for example that run the Unix operating
> system - or on PC-based machines running the Windows NT operating system
of > the Microsoft Corporation....
> ...Mainframes excel whereever there is a need for high security, rock
solid > reliability or immense processing capacity. But so convincing has
the > price-performance curve been for Unix and NT servers, including those
made > by IBM itself, that there are almost no first-time mainframe buyers.

High security? Rock solid reliability? Immense processing capacity?
Price-performance? Does anyone out there happen to work on a machine that
fits all of these criteria? I do.    

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