RE: Mac is the AS/400 of Desktop Computing per Dvorak

Booth,

I am not "Belittling them or impugning their skills" nor am I "be blind
to facts". Just commenting on the world famous Microsoft Spin Machine :-)
and the twist they can put on anything :-)

And I agree that they would go to any length to get off of the AS/400 and
OS/400 onto their OWN stuff, especially at the time this was going on, since
they wanted to play in the "enterprise/data center" arena and expand out of
the desktop/departmental server arena and it would be rather hard to say
leave one platform and move to ours if they weren't running on it.

Chuck

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Subject: Re: Mac is the AS/400 of Desktop Computing per Dvorak


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I'm as bigoted as anyone regarding the AS/400 but golly, lets not be blind
to facts.  Thats no service to anyone, least of all to us bigots.

Microsoft people are bright people.  They would want to eat their own
cooking.  Belittling them or impugning their skills serves no useful purpose
  Even if there are AS/400s still in service at Microsoft, it is not a
competitive issue.  I'd better dollars to DingDongs that their labs have
dissected and digested every aspect of the AS/400 and OS/400.

Dr Soltis often spoke of the AS/400s at Microsoft and he got brought up
short on it. Ever wonder why?

Sunlight sterilizes.  Lets deal from truth, not wishes.  Please.




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-------Original Message-------

From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 01:53:01 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Mac is the AS/400 of Desktop Computing per Dvorak

From: Chuck Lewis <clewis@iquest.net>

> Are you serious ? Of course Microsoft would make something like this up -
or
> at least muddy the reality, which is probably closer to the truth here.
The
> sheer fact that they went to all of the trouble even create an article
like
> that should speak volumes !

even speaking about the "AS/400 being extinct at Microsoft".


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