Re: Why i??? NEED YOUR INPUT -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

Was on a call with IBM and the YiPs team yesterday. They are looking for
ways to liven up, and modernize, their message about the benefits of the IBM
i. The cool thing is that the folks on the phone weren’t your traditional
marketing folks but people that have grown up with the machine and actually
BELIEVE it is one of the best platforms for business today – specifically
the IBM i OS.

The people on the phone might not have been traditional marketing
types, but they are asking the same, traditional question.

IBM keeps its new stuff like Open IO under wraps compared to MSFT
which releases beta and RC bits far in advance.

You have to open source the system for it to grow and prosper. The OS,
ILE, and RPG. ( DB2 is not needed if the code which couples the
database to the OS is published. )

Been doing Silverlight work lately. Fascinating how decoupled the SL
client is from the server OS. Windows server and even SQL server have
nothing special to offer a SL client which the client can't get from a
server like IBM i, Linux or AIX.

-Steve

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