Re: Am I missing something? Can an AS/400 act as a network server right now?

[lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Loyd Goodbar)]

Is that true if you need (real or imagined) to use Microsoft products to be
"compatible" with the rest of the business world? Sure, you could use the
FSIOP (or integrated server, or whatever it's called this week), at added
expense, not to mention those darned MS licenses.

Our network lives and dies by Outlook and file sharing. Does the AS/400 have a
ready replacement for that? That's the question I'm forced to ask myself when
I'd like to use something different on the desktop than Windows*. I have a
business requirement to connect to Outlook, so I can't run Linux.

I agree the 400 is great for its place in the network, but it can't replace
the network yet.

Loyd

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:15:28 -0500, boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:

>I think what I was really asking a rhetorical question.  It just dawned on 
>me that one can buy an AS/400, and a router, add some cabling and NICs and 
>have a complete LAN ready to connect Network Stations, Terminals, Macs, 
>iMacs, Windows machines, OS/2, Linux, and the internet.  One does not have 
>to install an Apache, NT, OS/2, or other server; the AS/400 is finally 
>ready to connect to the non-AS/400 world without all sorts of conversion 
>and translation aids?
>
>______________________
>Booth Martin
>boothm@earth.goddard.edu
>http://www.spy.net/~booth
>_______________________

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