Re: The only hope to save the AS/400

I happen to disagree the Netfinity  is a brillant system--the black box ones
that can take 4 processers.
I purchased a brand new on ebay--I use it a lot more that my Model 200.Its
just as reliable as my AS400.
Enterprise server developers have always had to cope with feeling inferior
to their mainframe cousins.
David

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From: nina jones <ddi@datadesigninc.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: The only hope to save the AS/400


> > The industry recognizes that IBM has the most reliable server
architecture in
> > the world in the AS/400.  It is my belief that the heads of Sun, HP, and
many
> > others (including the proponents of Netfinity within IBM) pray every
night that
> > IBM continue to ignore the AS/400. They would not have a future if IBM
paid even
> > 50% of the attention to the platform that it should.
>
> how depressing!  and true!
>
> picture an ad campain, in the same style as the mci ads a couple of
> years ago, with exec friends from two different companies, one with a
> new p/c network, and another with an as/400.
>
> ad one - the execs meet for lunch, the one from the p/c company is
> fretting about how his d/p budget has doubled, and he's afraid it may
> get worse.  the as/400 shop's d/p budget has gone down.
>
> ad two - the execs are at a party, and exec one is late, and upset
> because the computer is down, again.  exec two can't remember the last
> time the computer went down.
>
> you get the drift!  but no, it makes too much sence.  they'll stick to
> dancing schoolgirls.
>
> nj
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