Re: moving libraries from user asp to system asp

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Al,

The WRKASP stuff was an another attempt to put stuff outside of OS/400, and 
sell it separately.

>As is typical in these cases, it did not sell well, and had lost it's 
>luster.  It's unclear to me if it is still marketed.

  I figured that by now they would have put in into OS/400 for free by now.

>Just about every time that IBM tries to get greedy, they fail.  The 
>notable exception to this is option 26 of OS/400, which is the part of 
>OS/400 that makes queries run over multiple processors on n-way 
>systems.  Nevertheless, this is not installed on enough of the n-way 
>systems to be termed a real success.

  I think it's a technological success, but I can't imagine that it's a 
sales success.  I priced it for the largest CISC system.  It was 
$15,000!!  The client took one look at the number and had a tough time 
holding the laughter back!!

>IBM needs to get smart, and keep adding function to OS/400, and not 
>optional, chargeable portions of it.  Maybe someday IBM will learn, and 
>hopefully it will be before they go bankrupt.

  They seem to miss the point that they need to increase functionality to 
remain current, to keep customer and, of course, to get new 
customers.  This is one thing that M$ has done very well.

>RANT(*FULL-ON)
>
>Maybe someday in their greed, they will sell the AS/400 Division, and then 
>those of us who invest in it will kick the entire computer industry's 
>asses, as it is the best computer architecture in the world.
>
>RANT(*OFF)

  I'm hoping that IBM "get's it" before they have the need to sell.

  -mark
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