RE: What should I say to a *nix community?

Off the top of my head:

1) was designed from the ground up as a multi-user server computer
2) security and internationalization were also designed from the get-go
3) high-school graduates of average intelligence are successfully running
multi-billion dollar businesses IT departments using it for over 20 years
4) the power of the joblog (although you'll have a hard time bridging that
gap in understanding - 'others' just don't get what they're missing on)
5) badly written program CANNOT affect other users' jobs or bring the system
down (i.e. once in a college lab I was helping a fellow student debug a
program he wrote for a class project; turns out he was dereferencing an
uninitialized pointer; but the symptom was that all printers in the lab were
printing out garbage every time he'd run his program; that kind of
side-effect just can't happen on the iseries [tagged pointers and all that])
6) IBM support that's 2nd to none

.... list goes on .....

Elvis

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