Re: Microsoft and AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

Come on? Yes come on guys. Except for the young toughs with no street 
smarts, we are all preaching to the choir.

I know in my heart that the best computer I've ever worked with in my life 
is the AS/400, PERIOD.

Bigger IBM iron may be better---I have no first hand experience with that, 
however it would not fray my bigotry one iota.

Anyone who claims that Microsoft's operating systems have any superiority 
over the AS/400 is a fool. Probably not a fool face-to-face, but a fool in 
the computing world.

I've said this probably 10 times on this list, but it bears repeating:

If you code an ancient RPG/CL system on an AS/400 using the "old fashioned" 
1970's structured methodologies, i.e., iterative design, coding, & testing; 
with SEU/DDS/RLU tools (cough, hack, vomit, etc.); it will NEVER, EVER BLOW UP.

I have been in this game 15 years and have yet to be proven wrong.

Microsoft has been in the OS game for 20 years, however they have never 
produced any piece of code that can claim the same fame. Further, I would 
bet my life savings on this: There is no way in Hell that a 
22-billion-dollar company could run its business on NT---that is, unless 
they used their entire talent pool (software & hardware) in writing a 
system to do so. But we all know that notion to be absurd. One half of 
their pool writes the code---the second half writes white papers explaining 
how to perform workarounds for bugs created by the first half.

"Mission critical and scalable?" Give me a break. You're blowing chunks 
dude---wake up and live a real life. NT is for adolescents, desktop 
businesses, & hackers---the AS/400 is for adults, fortune 500 companies, & 
folks interested in doing real computing.

BTW, here is one of my favorite articles on the dinosaur class of computing 
folks:

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.html

Tell me you young whippersnappers---who knows the game better, you or us?

Cheers,
Wynn Osborne

Senior P/A

At 11:03 AM 10/26/00 +1300, you wrote:
>Come on be fair guys to Microsoft,as much as I love the AS/400
>times have moved on!!!!!!!!!!!!
>Come on---Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter Server
>would have replaced  the AS/400 at $soft for sure.
>There is no way that they would use AS/400s when they sell the above as
>being just as mission critical and scalable at a fraction of the cost
>of midrange products.
>
>Im studing for MCP exam 70-100 Analyzing requirements and Solution
>Architectures and most of the case type questions are aboubt replacing
>AS/400s with Microsoft products.
>
>Dave

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