Showing some Face - AS/400 gets air time.

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thought you all would enjoy this series of posts from IW forum.    Sean
works for IW.   The following few
posts I think sums up what can happen if WE state our case in a Non-AS/400
forum.  

Annnnnyway.    I think we might start getting some air time.    Notice the
suprise in the posts from the  
non-AS/400 persons who are  finding out about it for the first time.    I
guess these Unix and NT people
don't subscribe to Midrange-L   huh?

Thanks to those who have helped.

John

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http://forums.infoworld.com/threads/get.cgi?76022

     Reader forum: Unix and NT (siteadm) Fri, 18 Sep 
          Server Vs. Desktop Vs. Thin client (trims) Sun, 20 Sep 
               It's posts like these.... (sdugan) Tue, 22 Sep 
                    Sean!.. good to see an IW face here - (ashton) Fri, 25
Sep

Showing some face....

     Posted by: sdugan
     Date posted: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 

     (metaphorically speaking) 

     Sorry I wasn't able to post more. Been meeting deadlines. Thankfully,
Nick P. made some
     posts to this forum. 

     You make some valid points about AS/400. It tends to be the slighted
'middle child'. Kinda
     quiet, just keeps chugging along. 

     It's been a little while since we've done a comparison involving
AS/400s, though we do have
     reviews of AS/400 products on occasion. Anwyay, I'll bring up your
suggestion that we do
     something involving AS/400 in the near future. 

     BTW: If you have any interesting ideas for an AS/400 forum, feel free
to pass them along.... 

     Sean Dugan 
     InfoWorld 



     Sean, re. AS400 forum: (ashton) Today 
     Also see below, please: (ashton) Today 
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Sean, re. AS400 forum:

     Posted by: ashton
     Date posted: Tue Sep 29 1:26:53 PDT 1998 

     I fail the competency test - but just above this post are Many who
would likely be both
     competent and Interested: J P Carr, for a first guess. 

     BTW - most surprising suggestion from above many posts: Could make an
excellent
     WebServer !! and.. even "pretend" it is several "NT"s - for those
caught in That 'Web'
     already... (Crashless NT Emulators ??) 

     I'd think That "Enterprise Solution" alone => would imply a Good
Feature, esp. as "More
     about.. NT5" becomes a topic only for humor and derision, amongst many
readers.. 


     Surely tho: merely the "Up Time" would make a fascinating counterpoint
to the experiences of
     (too-) many readers of IW. I would bet that many.. would be SHOCKED
(!) to hear such
     numbers, probably disbelieve too, until verifying the source(s). Is it
not a good idea, to
     prumulgate "what professional systems actually do" frequently? in IW? 

     Imagine... not rebooting.. FOR YEARS, and then: to perhaps add some
minor upgrade or
     another -- hardly EVER: a "Bug Fix". We have been so long under the
misapprehension that
     our Intel boxes + popular software = "a computer", that it seems about
time that we
     reconsider that definition and divide the name into Serious__ and
Toy__ (or whatever) 
     Really! 

     Just a few thots 


     ashton (Ashton Brown & Associates)

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Also see below, please:

     Posted by: ashton
     Date posted: Tue Sep 29 1:42:59 PDT 1998 

     This forum contains enough material (after the usual verifications, of
course) for a rather
     lengthy article in IW (IMO). Most every aspect of AS400 usage - has a
post or 2, from actual
     users; there's more "below" this post too... it seems to connect.. to
about everything but your
     wristwatch (so far). 

     (Should we become larger than I would want us to be - I would look
There First, methinks) 

     ashton

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Reader forum: Unix and NT (siteadm) Fri, 18 Sep 
          Server Vs. Desktop Vs. Thin client (trims) Sun, 20 Sep 
               As far as it goes. It's good. (JPCARR) Mon, 21 Sep 
                    Is it an IBM or UNIX choice? (brettj) Tue, 22 Sep 
                         AS/400 and Unix (mikepro) Tue, 22 Sep 
                              Good analysis! (brettj) Wed, 23 Sep 
                                   Analysis (mikepro) Wed, 23 Sep


And the trade press BURIES it all!!

     Posted by: JameS
     Date posted: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 

     I've learned more about AS/400 by reading IW forums in the last month
than in a decade of
     reading the corrupt computer press. They simply WILL NOT report what's
REALLY going
     on in the industry. 

     What can be done about it?



     AS/400 - The Non-Story (JPCARR) Thu, 24 Sep 
     Nothing ... they need their salaries too (df2112) Thu, 24 Sep 
     Success breeds Failure? (gregvp) Sat, 26 Sep 
     The only news is bad news? (johnearl) Sat, 26 Sep 
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