Re: OS/400 i5/OS

Personally, I don't think it matters what you call it.  People are coming 
out of college without even knowing what an AS/400 is, much less an 
iSeries.  My last year of college (3 years ago), I worked as a computer 
operator and it was the first time I'd seen an AS/400.  I remember asking 
on my first day why we were still using old outdated technology (or 
something along those lines).  The reason I thought that was because it 
was all text-based.  So call it whatever you want, because imo, with the 
green screen, anybody new to the industry will see it as old technology.

We have an iSeries now and with the exception of a few people in IT, I 
don't think anybody sees a difference between the two systems except for 
maybe increased speed.

Mike




midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/29/2005 07:39:59 PM:

> One of my customers recently had a board meeting (board members elected 
> from the membership).  During the meeting the new chief PITA in the 
> group, a PC bigot demanded that the organization immediately make plans 
> to dump the AS/400 for something more modern. "It's old green screen 
> only crap and has long since outlived it's usefulness."  The VP IS 
> replied that they had replaced the AS/400 with an eserver i5 a year ago 
> and they are now using an all web interface. (The same interface that 
> had been running on the AS/400 for two years by that time!)  They guy's 
> response was "About Time!"  Gotta love a good name change.
> 
> AS/400 must die.
> 
>  - Larry