Re: OS/400 i5/OS

Clearly, IBM has lost most college mindshare with EBCDIC computing, due to
years of marketing neglect.  I learned mainframe computing at RPI in the
70's.  My son now goes there, and it is no longer taught.  I asked the Dean
of the School of Science why no EBCDIC computing, and his response was "Why
would you want to teach that?  You would have to be IBM to use it."

The mindshare loss is creeping into low end customers.  High end customers
that try to move off of the platform frequently fail, at great expense,
although a few do succeed.

I have several customers that have tried to move, and failed.

The good news is that IBM is increasing their marketing budget several
fold.  Tongue in cheek, 10 times 0 =? :)))))))))

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

400>390

"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
e gads

Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!

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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on my first day why we were still using old outdated technology (or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
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