Re: Showing some Face - AS/400 gets air time. -- MIDRANGE-L


FWIW on the coast to coast flights
 United  airlines has   clips on AS/400  with Tom Jarosh.
  However  American  features PC solutions.

Glenn
 -  Who is a  the  carrier of choice for COMMON ???????
    

At 08:36 AM 9/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>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
>
>-=---------------------------------------------------------
>
>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 
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>--------------------------------------
>
>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)
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>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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