RE: FW: Random

No, I don't see it as a flame at all.  You make some good points.  I think 
though that you may need to do something about the PCs in your 
organization  -  Windows machines don't need rebooting 5 times a day 
anymore.  They are high powered and fast machines that are fun to work 
with and with all sorts of toys from e-mail to a player of radio stations 
from around the world.  People like them and expect a lot from them. Using 
Access and Excel is intuitive, fast, attractive, and compelling.   Like it 
or not, that is the immediate competition.
_______________________
Booth Martin
boothm@earth.goddard.edu
http://www.spy.net/~booth
_______________________




"Mark A. Manske" <mmanske@minter-weisman.com>
Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
02/16/2000 04:01 PM
Please respond to MIDRANGE-L

 
        To:     <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
        cc: 
        Subject:        RE: FW: Random


Sorry if this sounds like a flame, take it as tongue in cheek...  :)

Are you talking users, or programmers; users will never care what platform
they are on, just as long as they get what they want; and they should 
never
be programming.  You need to sell
the AS/400 to a user because it is easy for a programmer to work with, it 
is
stable, reliable, and can support a large number of users all at the same
time; you don't have to
re-boot, heck you don't even have to IPL until you upgrade the operation
system or apply
some PTF's; though doing it once per month is a good idea (unlike windoz,
doing it four to
six times per day is the norm with much lost productivity)






+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---