RE: Bob Cancilla's blog taken down?

["Evan Harris" <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The big shops are really important to the ecosystem as a whole; that's where
the best margins, profits and work come from. In some respects the larger
systems underwrite the smaller hops by making the system profitable. Think
of them as the bottom floor of a house of cards....

Regards
Evan Harris


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Subject: Re: Bob Cancilla's blog taken down?

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.