Re: Have you read this?

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Look around; the world is talking about Windows 2000 and Linux and Java.
> Those folks down in Maryland who are writing the software to control the

My current desktop os for both home and office is Caldera 2.3 linux
(KDE) and with the MAJOR mistakes SUN has made recently it wont be long
before we are talking the same way in reference to java. 
 
> Hubble Space Telescope don't even know what an AS/400 is.
And why should they, the 400 isn't meant to be good at calculating the
orbits of planets, or the amount of dark matter in the universe. It is
meant to do payroll, order entry, HR, .... blah blah blah. The people in
charge of payroll and HR for Hubble know what an AS/400 is, not the
dilberts.

The day NASA decides to calculate re-entry trajectories on the AS/400 is
the day I head for the hills.

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L. S. Russell Programmer/Analyst
Datrek Professional Bags, Inc.
2413 Industrial Drive
Springfield, TN. 37172
mailto:leslier@datrek.com
http://www.datrek.com
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