Re: Is the AS/400 a dying Ember

No I dont think the AS/400 will go ever away.It is too much of a "name brand
" for IBM to drop.
Personally I just see the OS involving into a total native JAVA OS
over the next ten years.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Vance Stanley <w_vance_stanley@yahoo.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, 3 May 2000 09:41
Subject: Re: Is the AS/400 a dying Ember


>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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