Re: Is the AS/400 a dying Ember

BTW you cant compare OS2 to the AS/400 market--
I think Microsoft deserverd to win on that one.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Stone, Brad V (TC) <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, 3 May 2000 09:15
Subject: RE: Is the AS/400 a dying Ember


>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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