RE: OS/400 command set

| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Adam Lang

|
| Becasue IBM wants you to go to them for everything.  As of right now, the
| iSeries can do nerly everything ... whether it is java, Microsoft, *nix,
| OS/400, Legacy code, middleware, new wve web services, etc.
|
| They just don't seem to portray it to well and elt others know that their
| systems can do nearly anythign you can conceive of.
|
| IBM needs to fight against the idea that iSeries is "old school".  Which
| they sort of are.  They are agressively marketing that the company can do
| anything you need ... they just are not specifcying the hardware.
|  They just
| want to get your attention to try to solve your problems and then if they
| see iSeries, AIX, Linux, Windows as your answer, they push it.

Adam, these are ALL good points.

But it's a little more complicated than that.  Perhaps I'm over-simplifying,
as well, but it's the iSeries "Division", within the eServer "Group" that is
fighting against the "Crimson Tide"...  And there isn't ANYTHING close to
100% consensus within ANY organization that size, either.