Re: Can you say "World War III?"(You guys are wrong)

["David Bulog" <d2ba@xxxxxxxxxx>]

10 years etc -sounds like an urban legand to me.
>I believe the last time our AS/400 went down was, ... oh it had to be 1996.
>It's more reliable than flying !



Most of the Microsoft bashing on this list is so ridiculous that I couldnt
lower myself to reply.I like the AS/400, but I think Win2000 Server has
caught up. Ive always been excited aboubt (how  Microsoft) tools and (new)
products work well with all the technologies they have.

I use ,have used VB5 Enterprise building
Rumba ObjectX GUIs with no trouble, or system crashs on NT.

>I've said it before and I'll say it again. When we got VB 5 Enterprise
>Edition, my first exposure to GUI development, I was so exited. "I'm in the
>90's", I thought. Along about day two, I'm sitting there doing something
>quite simple---designing a form---dragging some controls around---and BOOM!
> Ths !@#$% program blew up. At that instant I realized that company just
>wasted $1500 on a supposed development tool.


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