Re: PASE

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Shaw" <mshaw@ncal.verio.com>
To: <ign_list@IGNITE400.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: PASE


 Bob,

 It even gets one better:  I was reviewing the AS/400 Technical Conference
 agenda coming up in June.  There is not one session on PASE and what it
 brings to the table as it stands right now in the conference agenda.  You
 would figure that they would take the opportunity at an event like this to
 get exposure and plant the seeds for new ideas.

 I think they are missing one hell of an opportunity here.......

 Regards,

 Mike Shaw
 Senior AS/400 Technical Support
 North American Mortgage
 Santa Rosa, CA

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob Cancilla" <cancilla99@earthlink.net>
> >
> > I for one was afraid of this!
> >
> > There is no reason that IBM cannot port X-Windows applications!  The
API's
> > are there and in fact they were demonstrating them in the Expo center at
> > Common!  They were running a game, a JD Edwards complex manufacturing
> > process control application with a heavy duty graphics based diagram of
> the
> > process, and a couple other light weight UNIX apps like a clock and some
> > other utilities on a PC running an X-Windows emulator!
> >
> > So, there is NO TECHNICAL REASON why the AS/400 will not run X-Windows
> based
> > apps (which by the way is the base of the RS600 and NetWork Station's
> GUI).
> >
> > If you saw Sam Palmisano's interview in the Wall Street Journal, he is
> > positioning the AS/400 as a "database" and "business intellegence" box!
> He
> > stated that it is not IBM's leading "e-Business" box!
> >
> > This is all marketing and management directed, not technical!  I've seen
> the
> > GUI based apps with my own eyes.  They are fast, they are reliable, when
> the
> > gui dies (if it dies) you lose one job, and don't have to boot the whole
> > machine like other machines we all know of!
> >
> > This is downright stupidity!
> >
> > Bob C.
> >
>

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