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

SHEESH...this is unbelievable...guess I'll keep my mouth shut next time.

I never would have guessed that large corporations looked at these archives
to make platform decisions! I am quite positive that the C-level executives
in our company did not look -here- when they made their decision to move to
SAP on commodity hardware in the next 3-4 years. It's a done deal.

YES! Windows is good enough for many businesses! There I said it. Now I have
taken the first step to my salvation!

I'm sorry, but as a midrange/mainframe bigot, it is why I watch this and other
related forums. If my postings show by bias...then so be it, but I will never
fully turn to the "dark side" (lol). I hope the MicroSoft fans that monitor
these forums every day...forgive me.

Luckily, I don't post here often and now that I've had my hand slapped by a
number of high-paid consultants and IT executive-types, as a lowly peon-type
programmer I have learned my lesson.

Lastly, I sincerely apologize to David. I should have changed the group
to CPF0000 when I responded to James' original remarks.

Terry

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Jones
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:28 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Anybody know the record for the longest an
AS/400 has been contiuously up?

Re: Badmouthing: See Terry's comments early in the thread.

I've been trying to reinforce what Buck said. Windows is
here and it's
more than good enough for the vast majority of businesses.
It's reliable
enough, stable enough, and believe it or not secure enough
(when configured
properly, which every platform requires for "secure enough"
operation). It
also scales both out & up on modern hardware.

That's not promoting MS; just stating modern IT reality. The same
statements can be made about Unix & Linux.

For the group, we are naturally biased towards out platform
of choice and
there's nothing wrong with that. But promoting IBM i needs to be done
based on the platform's strengths and with the understanding that the
competition is not idle. That yesterday's weaknesses
probably don't apply
today. And that by most requirements that matter to a
business, Windows is
competitive. Not necessarily superior, but competitive. IBM
i has to win
in that environment, and I'm glad you're having success.

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