FW: Are Search/400 having a laugh(maybe not)

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the interest of fairness, here's a follow up to a message I forwarded
earlier.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ign_list@ignite400.org [mailto:ign_list@ignite400.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 12:41 PM
> To: ign_list@ignite400.org
> Subject: Are Search/400 having a laugh
> 
> 
> From: IGNITE400_Forum <forum@ignite400.org>
> 
> Bleddyn,
> 
> As you may know, it runs AltaVista software, wich doens't run 
> on the AS/400.
> 
> There is no "Search Engine" software for the AS/400 (that 
> spiders sites in the "outside world" etc...) yet, I'm still 
> looking for a good one.
> 
> If IBM had one, certainly it would be a multi-platform 
> product such as Net.Data, Net.Commerce, DB2 or Websphere, and 
> probably the people at Search400 would be running it on 
> RS/6000, or the worse, in Sun Servers.
> 
> I'm really worried about the future of the AS/400, today I've 
> visited numerous sites and find very similar questions, 
> that's because this message has a little pessimism :(
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rubens Lehmann
> 
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> What AS/400 IP services do you run?
> 
> http://www.ignite400.org/member/html/survey.htm
> 
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