Re: Hypothetical

Ken,

Are you talking personally or for a business?

Personally. I would stay with the AS/400. Companies will be running them 
long after I am retired (25 more years and counting). But if for some 
reason they were recalled and could not be replaced then C++ and JAVA. And 
hope we were out of the depression, (created by pulling every AS/400, and 
companies going out of business) by the time I retired. Or retire early 
from all the work that would be out there replacing the AS/400's, before 
they were pulled, if time permitted.

For a business. Stay with the AS/400 until you see a point where it would 
not handle your business needs or become to expensive to fix. Putting any 
new stuff in Java, then moving everything to Java, as time permits. Not 
that I know Java or even like it. But if a company got burned by hardware 
going away and there is a way to keep that from happening again that would 
be the path I think most would take. And with .net and other Microsoft 
products you are tieing your self to an operating system.  If not Java 
something that allowed me to change hardware and operating systems the 
easiest.

Let me ask a question. what percent of AS/400 are just running TCP/IP for 
telnet (maybe LPR/LPD)  and running RPG applications, no Java, websphere, 
DNS or any other TCP/IP servers on the AS/400? I think it would be a high 
percentage.

John Ross



At 07:13 AM 7/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Gentlemen/women
>         Assuming for a moment, that the IBM midrange line of computers 
> encountered an untimely demise, what in your estimation would be next 
> best line of technology to persue?
>         There is method to my madness.
>Thanks
>
>--
>Best Regards
>Ken Shields

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