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  • Subject: Re: Dis-merits of AS/400
  • From: nj <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 09:32:06 -0600
  • Organization: Data Design Inc http://www.datadesigninc.com

> Here again ... MARKETING. Check this out: We have Windows 98, and soon Windows
> 2000 (how soon is "soon"? ha ha).
>
> So they APPEAR new.
>
> Perhaps the AS/400 should be reinvented as ... I dunno ... AS/2000? Or at 
>least
> OS/2000 for the operating system.
>
> Perception; it sells.

and here all along, keeping the as/400 name was called 'protecting your
investment'.  i could get really testy about that, but it, uh, ticks me off that
you have businesses that think nothing of buying a new fleet of p/c's, but at 
the
same time, are angry that ibm just didn't make the 36 to where you could turn it
into an as/400, etc.

hello, sometime's technology is so old, you have to ditch the old.  but ibm has
done a good job of keeping the as/400 upgradable.

nj

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