Re: The Future of the AS/400 (was Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????)

I'm a bit ticked when they start having those announcements and conferences
like that is going to solve the underlying problem.  AS/400 hard core folks
are tired of these folks at IBM.  I'm pretty sure IBM is not stupid with
this attitude they have but some people are buying into it.  The only reason
why people are still buying into IBM approach to the AS/400 is because it is
unimmaginable to have a system like the AS/400 and phase it out just like
that.  I won't be caught sleeping when it happens.

Dare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Birnbaum" <gbirnba@rei.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:23 PM
Subject: RE: The Future of the AS/400 (was Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????)


> More proof of the commitment to the iSeries/AS400 is what I consider the
> most significant part of the 4/29 announcements:  The Statement of
> Direction that iSeries and pSeries will run on convergent technology and
> that within two years you will be able to order a platform that can run
> OS/400 and also native AIX in a partition managed by a hypervisor for
> the hardware resources.  Shops that have big investments in both
> platforms will have all sorts of options......  I can't wait!
>
> Glenn Birnbaum
> REI
>
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