Re: AS/400

At 1:58 PM -0500 7/30/01, rob@dekko.com wrote:
>1)  You are giving your clients a choice:
>a)  Either develop or purchase a package which separates presentation from
>business logic (like Lawson).
>b)  Or pay for the interactive feature.

    Either way the customer will be unhappy because they will feel 
cheated.  If I do a), it has to be paid for by someone.

>3)  'whatever IBM does to make their apps run crappy affects mine as well.'
>You can either:
>a)  whine about IBM's pricing
>b)  tell your customers what kind of a processor is recommended, and
>indirectly price yourself out of the market
>c)  Write something that takes less processor and keep the money instead of
>giving it to IBM
>d)  lose the account to software xyz which runs on platform abc
>As my father-in-law says, "You can wish in one hand and spit in the other
>and see which one fills up first."

    Doing c) causes the same net result as b), which leads directly to 
d).  AS/400 loses again.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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