Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Yikes...I sense a touch of frustration.

All of this is IMHO.

- Remember when "killer app" dictated the final hardware you would
get? How does that work now?  A company re-inventing I/T might
conclude:
"So what if we are trapped into MS upgrades with the rest of the
business world, there is strength in numbers. Lets not be trapped into
a has been (MHO).

I think the Y2K bills stung hard enough where there is a big lesson
for many on platform and apps.

It is way too late to position an native i5 with any significant share
(apparently) but rather will exist soon in a morphed state.

And about GUI: until XP (and Microsoft was sick of hearing about it)
this was the native interface to windows:
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>

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ditto for  *nix
Everyone that connects to my windows server or AIX server needs to
start a GUI program.

I have yet to see one thin client rich enough for real business app
from start to finish. If you need to shell out for command line work
then thin client is not a total solution just yet, now is it? Online
banking is dog slow and that is the BEST there is (supposedly). You
name it, it is slower than it needs to be. Remember sub-second
respnonse times? Anyone? We waste MORE time waiting on page delivery
than anything these days if you are web-app'ing it. Even Google is
slowed if you personalize a page full of links.


Mark Villa
Summerville, SC