>>> Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@fwi.com> 02/26/98 07:46am >>>

[Scott Cornell <CORNELLS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@fwi.com> 02/26/98 07:46am >>>
> Here's a thought.  Maybe the stability of the AS/400 means we (AS/400
> developers) are spending time thinking about and solving business
> problems.  Because we're being served well by the AS/400, we aren't in
> 'need' of some new method or 'fad' or answer.

Ringing in w/my 2 cents worth:

I've recently (past 3-4 months) been working on a VAX/VMS machine running an 
Oracle based data warehouse, after spending my entire career to this point
in the AS/400 world (hence the reason I still subscribe to this list - I don't 
want
to lose touch w/the "real" world :)).  I'm willing to write a good deal of my 
perceptions off to a personal learning curve (it is a new system after all), 
but 
it does seem to me that stuff that required a no-brainer "snap of the fingers" 
on 
the /400 takes a surprising amount of gyrations to get to work over here.  
Perhaps I am a case study of "just being used to being so well served" or (more
likely) I'm just an inflexible dinosaur who can't adapt well ;)

Scott Cornell
Mercy Information Systems
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