RE: Great quotes

Al is very much out there....lurking and listening.

Thanks for the good thoughts!!  This has been a blast....mucho_media,
all fixated on why we didn't go to HP Eunichs <HP-UX for the
satirically_challenged>...

It's an easy question to answer...I'm more interested in helping grow
the business while controlling headcount!

And Yes...Al Was Mighty Surprised that "Windows and Linux Edition"
didn't pick up my kind thoughts....]:-)


 
Al Karman
Director of Information Technology
alk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 
 

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Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:59 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Great quotes

Saw some interesting comments by Al Karman.
http://www.midrangeserver.com/mso/mso110403-story01.html  Was looking
for
something else this past week, and ran across this comment
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200212/msg01036.html so name rang
a
bell.  (Dag!!  Just now noticed I'd flagged Ray Shahan's follow-up for
an
immediate reply, but then...;-)  Don't know if Al still gets around this
neighborhood much but, if so, thanks for quotes Al!!

"But the complexity of Unix, not to mention what he found to be a lack
of
prepackaged distribution applications designed for Unix, did not favor
the
open operating system, says Al Karman, Lady Remington's IT director.
'We're
trying desperately to keep being a jewelry company,' he says. 'We're not
that interested in becoming a technology company or becoming a beta site
for
Microsoft.'"  <snort>

"'Like most of the free world, we run Microsoft on the desktop,' he
says.
'But when it comes to the enterprise, I can't with a clear conscience
run
Windows...'     <and it get's better, imo...;->

Unfortunately, this wasn't published in Midrange Server's sister-pub,
the
"Windows and Linux Edition".  (Perhaps comments were too "strong",
though
last paragraph is favorable to *nix (AIX flavor).)

Somewhat related question:  Does JDA run on both 400 and *nix??  Iirc, I
ran
across it a decade ago on 400, but that might have been JBA instead of,
or
in addition to.  (Anyone who uses a TLA should be treated like a horse
thief, imo...;-)




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