RE: Anybody know the record for the longest an AS/400 has been contiuously up?

Since the article was referring to uptime, I was referring to that
aspect of Windows. If you wish to tout the fantastic uptime of
Windows that's your perogative. If you also choose to run your
business with it...I wish you the best of luck :)

However, as a desktop system, yeah it's "ok" but my next home PC
will be a fully loaded Mac...based on a more stable *NIX system.

Of course, this forces me to bow down to another monopolistic
oriented company...but I digress...LOL

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 1:17 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Anybody know the record for the longest an
AS/400 has been contiuously up?

Thank you Buck. It seems in the midrange community that any mention of
Windows is anathema, and only i systems have value. And if
anyone thinks
Windows has value...well, they must be know nothing MBAs.
Windows systems
are good systems. So are i systems. They have different
functions, but they
can work together very well.


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Buck Calabro
<kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Attribution snipped deliberately, as I am responding to a

general theme

rather than a specific person.

Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/03/14/2029205/solaris-ma
chine-shut-down-after-3737-days-of-uptime

Show me a Windoze box that can do this and I might buy it...lol

I think that ragging on Windows by our community is

counterproductive.

It makes us look like reactionaries and worse, out of touch with the
real world. A world dominated by Windows desktops. Whose end users
have a set of opinions shaped by the Windows experience.

Users who can

install a USB attached scanner without having to wait for a

work order.

Users who can email spreadsheets to each other without needing a
programmer to set up the import process. Users who

interact with each

other via email, social media and Skype. The last time I

checked, we're

looking pretty lame here in midrange land compared to a US

$500 laptop

fresh out of the box when looking at things actual people

actually do

with computers.

We need to learn that Windows is part of a healthy,

balanced computing

diet. We need to embrace Windows applications and

capabilities as part

of the process of solving business problems faced by our end user
community. Because we aren't here to act as a captive

audience for IBM

hardware and software. We are here to help our end users be better,
faster and stronger than the competition. If we fail at

this task, so

will our company.

--buck
--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion

(MIDRANGE-L) mailing list

To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.

--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
(MIDRANGE-L) mailing list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.

Confidentiality Notice:

The preceding e-mail message (including any attachments) contains information that may be confidential, protected by applicable legal privileges, or constitute non-public information. It is intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender by replying to this message and then delete it from your system. Use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message by unintended recipients is
not authorized and may be unlawful.