RE: AS/400

Given the fact that IBM has stated that their direction is that WebFacing
will eventually NOT impose the interactive tax, it seems to me that IBM is
not trying to choke you for money, but is instead trying to wean you off of
the 5250 data stream.  I'm just a little ahead of IBM, is all.

Joe Pluta
www.plutabrothers.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 10:16 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: AS/400
>
> This is a big issue for me as well.  Can you reliably pitch a
> solution, such
> as Joe Pluta's, when IBM may decide later that such a solution still
> requires the interactive feature?  (Joe's solution may make economic sense
> if you're able to upgrade to an iSeries without the interactive feature.
> The price of an interactive feature will give you a huge budget
> to implement
> Joe's technique)  But what would happen to you, the employee or
> consultant,
> who successfully pitches the idea only to tell the company they have to
> purchase the interactive feature anyway at a later date?  CLM
> comes to mind.


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