RE: Is the AS/400 a dying Ember

It's just like everything else.  One or more standards come out, and only
one survives because people don't want to have more than one of something
(video players for example)./

DVD vs. Divix (divix was a joke anyhow)
VHS vs. Beta
CD vs. Dat
Redhat vs. every other Linux Dist..

More to come...  And I'm sure I missed a few.

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> From: Dave_Dahlstrom@triangle-group.com
> [mailto:Dave_Dahlstrom@triangle-group.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 1:57 PM
> To: MiDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Is the AS/400 a dying Ember
> 
> 
> I firstly apologise to anyone who does not understand the 
> underlying question
> that I hope to raise here.  This may not be the arena to air 
> these comments, but
> what the hell, you never know is might spark the fire into life.
> 
> I feel the need to talk, to talk about the future of the AS/400 from a
> commercially viable viewpoint.  I feel that I may be guilty 
> of engulfing  myself
> in the technological flames of a platform that from a 
> commercial standpoint
> seems to no longer warrant the attention of my future or even 
> that of the
> Solution providers.  Market Share, Market Share, Market 
> Share, why don't these
> people do for the good of mankind what they do for 'Market 
> Share' Oh please I
> feel torn between the knowing smile of stability and common 
> sense against that
> of a Nike advert.   The very nature of the human being is to 
> go with the flow,
> go with what you know, survive and earn enough to live the 
> life you only dream
> about,  but that's it, its a dream, its the dimension that we 
> think we wish to
> obtain but mean while we lose sight of the real goal.  That 
> goal is what? I
> don't know.  A perplexing question that warrants your comments.
> 
> OS/2 springs to mind,  a lovely 32bit operating system that 
> seemed to again
> unleash my technological underpinnings, wrong! Microsoft is 
> the way to go, as I
> have this on my PC at home and I can run my own business on 
> it and its cheap. I
> say 'its your Business and lets keep it that way'.   Betamax another
> technological breakthrough that would revolutionise the world 
> but once again
> market demand deemed otherwise,  was it because it was 
> technologically inept?  I
> doubt it,  Was it because it was a different shape? quite possibly.
> 
>  Is the AS/400 in danger of falling by the wayside like the 
> for-mentioned,  I
> wonder if IBM had anything to do with Betamax.
> 
> your comments would be greatly appreciated as my future is in 
> the balance due to
> conformity.
> 
> Am I trying to keep a dying Ember alive? I am trying to a 
> unlock a dream that is
> just that 'a Dream'.
> 
> 
> 
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