Re: AS/400 Gasping For Air ?? _NOT_!

John,

In a message dated 1/3/99 5:30:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
74711.77@compuserve.com writes:

> What's your opinion on this article ??    Do you agree with Sandy?

It depends on what you mean by agree ;-).  I agree that the /400 is getting
its second wind, I disagree that it is "sucking it".  I further agree that
Gartner Group tends to try and create some "self-fulfilling prophecy", and is
not always favorable to IBM products (unless they're presenting at COMMON).
>From some private e-mail I got from cross-platform discussions of ERP on BPCS-
L, I know for a fact that Baan has people in Rochester now porting to the
platform.  I _thought_ that PeopleSoft was porting as well.  Most of the other
"majors", JDE, SSA, MAPICS, Prism, SAP, are already there.  American Software
is mainframe-based and probably won't port due to corporate attitudes (or they
would have already), and Oracle can't even get their act together on their
_native_ platform(s).  If anything, the /400 should prove to be the ERP
platform of _choice_, due to its uptime performance characteristics.  Who in
their right mind would choose a 95% or less uptime average after they've fully
integrated all of their applications, customers, and vendors?

>  Maybe Drop her a line.    She is the Editor I think of Inforworld Today.  
>  Visit the site below to see 
>  the graphs.
>  
>  I personally didn't think she could spell AS/400.

I chatted with her briefly after you pointed out another of her articles.
She's a former AS/400 professional, which probably dampens her credibility
with the so-called "legitimate" IT intellegencia...

Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Eight percent of success is showing up." -- Woody Allen
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