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Dan,

> And you want IBM to emulate Microsh*t's example?!?!?  Are you
> nuts?  I'll take iSeries stability over any cr*p M$ ships any
> day.

OS/400 stability, hmmmm. Just a very simple query of the APAR's shows 250 
documents found for 'system crash or hang'

Public perception can sometimes be a bad thing.

> The only reason M$ is profitable is that it sells patches
> as OS upgrades,

And OS/400 V1R2M0 through V5R2M0 are not ? OS/400 is good, but I think not that 
good !

> and it has a very gullible market base that
> implicitly allows M$ to set standards.  Should IBM
> follow that model?  I think not.

It doesn't need to have a 'very gullible market' it has a better one, a very 
captive market.

--phil


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