Is the AS/400 better than Unix?

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

" Have you ever ditched Unix for another OS and were glad you did?"

There's a new infoworld forum.    It called   "What's wrong with Unix".    
 Has anyone switched from 
Unix to the AS/400?     Why did you switch?    Why is the AS/400 better
suited for business computing than Unix?   Here's a snippet from Nick's
editorial.  

At   
http://forums.infoworld.com/threads/get.cgi?77566

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But we haven't spent enough time asking what's wrong with Unix and when
should we avoid it?
When is it unwise to choose Solaris, all of the BSDs (such as FreeBSD,
NetBSD, BSDI, and so on),
Linux, AIX, Unixware, etc? Have you ever ditched Unix for another OS and
were glad you did?
Why? What were the benefits? Now that even commercial Unix prices have
dropped so much,
would those benefits still apply if you made the same trade today? 

"" Most of all, I'd like for us to dig a little deeper than the canned
arguments people tend to wage
against Unix. We all know which OS has the most popular desktop
applications. We all know that
the Unix command set can be more difficult to learn. We all know that some
people prefer the
Windows or Macintosh GUIs. 

Instead of beating those dead horses, I'd rather we address any problems
with the real guts of Unix
-- is Unix threading inferior for some tasks? Is there a lack of
thread-safe tools? Is the
owner/user/group system obsolete? Would NT-style access control lists help
Unix or just bog it
down needlessly? As great as products like SAMBA may be, are the file
system incompatibilities
between the Unix and Windows too serious to make Unix the best possible
glue in a Windows
desktop world? 

Unix isn't perfect -- so give its flaws your best shot, and let's see what
is left standing. "" 
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Just thought   some of us may have worked on both platforms and can discuss
why one is better.
See you at the forum if you can contribute.

John
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