Re: AS/400 strong points

At 12:03 PM 5/19/97 +0700, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm trying to make a summary on AS/400 strong points for business
environment.
>So, can all of you give me some suggestion about that matter ?
>Consider also the UNIX business applications that are growing in number.
>Why should I stay with AS/400 ??

Skip Marchesani wrote an excellent white paper for the Patrica Seybold
Group contrasting AS/400 and Unix.  It blows Unix out of the water.
>
>Maybe for those of you who use S/36 or Advanced 36, can you tell me IBM
>direction for this platform. Will they continue to support it or will they
>"suggest" the user to migrate to AS/400 platform ?

Clearly IBM has been suggesting the AS/400 as the direction for S/36
customers.  The problem is that the original S36E was not strong enough.
The *M36 environment is where customers (who do not want to enhance the
application architecture) are going.




Al Barsa, Jr. - Account for Midrange-L
Barsa Consulting Group, Inc.    
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Phone:  914-939-4422
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