RE: maintaining skills

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Life or death of a computer system is based on sales, not research
papers.

That being said, if IBM follows through with their marketing
initiatives, the iSeries could get another lease on life.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: maintaining skills
> From: Kenneth H Werner <KHWerner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, March 16, 2005 11:38 am
> To: rob@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: MIDRANGE-JOBS@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> You can ignore this message if you still believe in the AS/400 and 
> continue to build their skills on it.
> 
> The only enemy the AS/400 has is the unfaithful population that say 
> AS/400 is dead while for years earning a living from what they curse. 
> For the population that would tell Brad Day the AS/400 is dead, i5 is 
> the latest family of the dead AS/400 so you can understand the quotes. 
> 
> Brad Day of Forrester Research in his January 1995 report "IBM's i5: The 
> 'Swiss Army Knife' of Virtualization" says.
> 
> Based on the benchmark, IBM's i5 "delievers proof that the iSeries is 
> the one to beat" for virtualization. The "benchmark clearly demostrate 
> that users can get higher utilization and ROI on their computer 
> resources by using IBM's i5".
> 
> Yes, its dead!
> 
> rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> >I did reply earlier, but didn't send a copy to the list.  A list of time 
> >sharing services are in the faq.
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> >http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/423.html
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> >Rob Berendt
> >  
> >
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