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I do client/server and internetworking consulting and I hear it at least once a week. "NT is the future thats the way to go". I invariably ask what feature of NT do you specifically want that the platform you have doesn't offer. There is either no answer or they claim to need a feature that ins't _yet_ in NT(but promised REAL SOON NOW). I have clients running Unix, OS/2, Novell, OS/400, MVS, VMS, and various combinations of them all and nearly all of them are at least thinking about NT. And one or two can even tell me why. There is a mass histeria about NT that is only partially the result of the marketing MS does. The other part is the trade press treating it like an inevitability. I don't think there is anything IBM can do to counter this effect other than to run lots of ads and CONTINUE to add great new technology to the AS. More to the point IS people get WDWGTNT(Why Don't We Go To NT) on a regular basis from managers. These non-technical managers are interested in what computers they are using only because it's "Sexy", cool and hip to talk about computers. NT(because of marketing and the press) is all of those things. Will AS/400 advertising make it at least two of the three? Who knows. Jim Blizard jimb@otterspace.com On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Chris Rehm wrote: > Back to the original point. I still have trouble believing that someone > sees an ad for NT (I assume in print, I have never seen a television ad > for NT are there any?) and somehow feels this is going to solve some > application problem. Probably all that is happening here is that you need > to fill in some details on the last couple times this happened. My > immediate reaction is to disregard these claims as untrue, but perhaps I > am just mistaken. > > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com | and specify 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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