New system and Common...

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,

Frankly, there's too many old systems out there for it to go away tomarrow
or even next year.  The momentum factor just says it ain't gonna happen...
And, IBM and us consultants are gonna make some bucks doing
conversions...:)

If you'll recall, Gerstner back in 9x called for ONE hardware line that
had the o/s and software loaded at the end of the assembly line...whereas
now at the hardware line if it's a 400 it get painted one way, a weinie
box gets painted another....  Perhaps this rebranding and lack of product
awareness we've seen historically is part of their big picture...

And, yes, IBM's done some stupid things in the past, but I don't see them
forcing cold turkey dumping of old/current stuff without some kind of
migration path...ala S/38, et al...  

Common:  They've transitioned before, they will again...it's a management
issue...I just found it interesting that a AS/400 user group didn't
mention the AS/400 on their webber....  Jeff, you may want to have Lansa
put something like "powered by AS400" on the webber...me thinks it used to
be there in a past itteration...also, it might be nice to kinda define
what kind of a "user group" Common is so that someone that's not been
around since SSP knows...:)  Don't read more into that statement than is
there...:)  Jeff, I never intended to rattle your cage...

Don in DC



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