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

Dave
 
Dont worry, If its going away (and I dont think it is
yet) then you will be warned far enough ahead to get
into other platforms/os's. In 1990 I was doing batch
mainframe COBOL on DOS/VSE 3090's. 2 years later I was
doing COBOL/RPG on an AS400. If the AS400 goes I will
be cranking out code on some other platform. 

--- Dave_Dahlstrom@triangle-group.com wrote:
> 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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