Re: Dis- advantages of AS/400

At 01:00 AM 12/4/98 EST,   Dean Asmussen wrote:
>Mr., Mrs., Miss., Ms. Prasad,
>
>.........deleted for brevity's sake.................

>It may be my cynical nature, but I must ask _WHY_ someone, as a member of
this
>list, would _WANT_ to know the negative aspects of the AS/400? 

Precisely, because - as members of this  list -  we make a living working
with a
tool called AS/400.

And as responsible professionals, i think we have to know  the excellent,
the good, and
also the bad and the ugly....... 

 We spend most
>of our time here _touting_ the AS/400, 

It is a great machine........

>.....as IBM does such a poor job of it.
 could not agre more.



>Unless the submission were from IBM, I cannot imagine a _constructive_
>criticism serving anyone but an IBM competitor...
>

I just don't seem to get this point: any good competitor must know what he
is up
against...



EndreE
>

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