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

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Best Regards
Ken Shields

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