Re: [Fwd: About prospects of AS/400 !!!!!]

I AGREE ! That's why I "bounced" this over to the MAIN list ! Scary that folks 
are thinking this way, eh ?

Rob Berendt wrote:

> For those who cannot look at attachments see below:
> Hi,
>         I am a software professional working with an esteemed company. 
>Recently
> during a discussion there was a point brought out that there is not much in
> store for AS/400 professionals in the future years to come and the trend
> now is migrating applications from AS/400 to S/390 and RS/6000.
>         This kind of an information has made me apprehensive of continuing in
> AS/400. I would really appreciate the help if some of you out there could
> share their views on this and also tell me as what are the more recent
> developments that are scheduled to take place on the AS/400 and where I can
> get to know about the same thru the net.....
>
> Regards,
> Pavan Krishnamurthy.
>
> My comments would have to be that while the S/390 has a future for large 
>datawarehouses and HUGE databases it has been my experience that more people 
>are rightsizing from the S/390 and PC's onto the 400.  I'd like to know where 
>he got his info from.  Perhaps he should have been in Midrange-l instead of 
>RPG.  Especially with many of the recent posts.
>
> CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET on 09/30/98 11:38:18 AM
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
> To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet
> cc:
> Subject:        [Fwd: About prospects of AS/400 !!!!!]
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Pavan posted this to RPG400-L at Midrange and while I know that a good
> deal of us subscribe to ALL lists, I wanted to make SURE that this got
> to the MAIN list.
>
> HELP him dispel this GARBAGE !!!!
>
> Chuck
>
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