Re: Why can't we eat our own cooking?

The issue of "need" is all in my head. David has everything up and running, it seems.
It just seems that if the System i is such an all-fired great machine that it should be able to compete in some way with what David, and others, are using.
Gosh, if we System i bigots can't make a case for using the System i in this very real-life situation, then how can we expect normal people to choose System i?
In other words, can we eat our own cooking?

Doug Palme wrote:

I cannot speak for anyone else but I would be willing to contribute towards
a new box if that was needed.
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:33 AM
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Subject: Why can't we eat our own cooking?

Why can't we eat our own cooking?

It has always bugged me that David, who runs this list out of his own pocket, as a unpaid hobby, has had to make the business decision to not use System i. If there is any place at all that can show us how to use System i for our work as we involve our businesses with the Internet, it is David and these lists that he maintains. If he can do it, so can;t we. If he can't, then maybe we can't, either?

Would the heavy hitters on this list please make the case with the right people to get David to Rochester for a week or so to get a new box properly configured, and send him home with it? Please? There are some Important People that read this list, and their words will carry weight, especially if their efforts are deliberate and unified.

(I understand this post is way off topic, but then again, maybe it is exactly on topic?)