Re: Bob Cancilla's blog taken down?

["Bob P. Roche" <broche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well the hardware won't die off, IBM now run the AIX system on it. All 
they need to kill off would be I OS or is it i OS. I hope that doesn't 
happen it is a solid system, It's amazing when you kill off a system 
because you built it too well and people don;t upgrade as often because it 
just works.



From:
Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
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Date:
09/22/2009 10:33 AM
Subject:
Re: Bob Cancilla's blog taken down?
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Bob Cancilla <bob.cancilla@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Some of you quoted some major companies that are using iSeries.  Many of
> those are leaving the platform under mandate from their corporate IT
> organizations. Again I will not name names as I got that information 
while
> at IBM so that would be inappropriate, but some of the largest and best
> known iSeries shops are leaving the platform.

Interesting how a system that is best suited for small shops has its
future threatened by the decisions of large shops.  I know people
reject the open source approach as unfeasible and/or unwanted, but at
least that would allow us to survive. The hardware that IBM i runs on
is arguably the best on the market.