RE: Is the AS/400 a dying Ember -- MIDRANGE-L

It's just like everything else.  One or more standards come out, and only
one survives because people don't want to have more than one of something
(video players for example)./

DVD vs. Divix (divix was a joke anyhow)
VHS vs. Beta
CD vs. Dat
Redhat vs. every other Linux Dist..

More to come...  And I'm sure I missed a few.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave_Dahlstrom@triangle-group.com
> [mailto:Dave_Dahlstrom@triangle-group.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 1:57 PM
> To: MiDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Is the AS/400 a dying Ember
> 
> 
> I firstly apologise to anyone who does not understand the 
> underlying question
> that I hope to raise here.  This may not be the arena to air 
> these comments, but
> what the hell, you never know is might spark the fire into life.
> 
> I feel the need to talk, to talk about the future of the AS/400 from a
> commercially viable viewpoint.  I feel that I may be guilty 
> of engulfing  myself
> in the technological flames of a platform that from a 
> commercial standpoint
> seems to no longer warrant the attention of my future or even 
> that of the
> Solution providers.  Market Share, Market Share, Market 
> Share, why don't these
> people do for the good of mankind what they do for 'Market 
> Share' Oh please I
> feel torn between the knowing smile of stability and common 
> sense against that
> of a Nike advert.   The very nature of the human being is to 
> go with the flow,
> go with what you know, survive and earn enough to live the 
> life you only dream
> about,  but that's it, its a dream, its the dimension that we 
> think we wish to
> obtain but mean while we lose sight of the real goal.  That 
> goal is what? I
> don't know.  A perplexing question that warrants your comments.
> 
> OS/2 springs to mind,  a lovely 32bit operating system that 
> seemed to again
> unleash my technological underpinnings, wrong! Microsoft is 
> the way to go, as I
> have this on my PC at home and I can run my own business on 
> it and its cheap. I
> say 'its your Business and lets keep it that way'.   Betamax another
> technological breakthrough that would revolutionise the world 
> but once again
> market demand deemed otherwise,  was it because it was 
> technologically inept?  I
> doubt it,  Was it because it was a different shape? quite possibly.
> 
>  Is the AS/400 in danger of falling by the wayside like the 
> for-mentioned,  I
> wonder if IBM had anything to do with Betamax.
> 
> your comments would be greatly appreciated as my future is in 
> the balance due to
> conformity.
> 
> Am I trying to keep a dying Ember alive? I am trying to a 
> unlock a dream that is
> just that 'a Dream'.
> 
> 
> 
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