Re: easy400 site needs your support

> 
> You know IBM's infinite wisdom on what is of value
> to us.
> 
 
What is of value to **IBM**.  They want us all to use
WebSphere and nothing but WebSphere (note the JDE
agreement to use WebSphere).  They think that by
facilitating cgi we won't adopt WebSphere.  But what
the MGMs fail to realize is they're going to lose
sales to non ibm servers and app servers like BEA
Weblogic (whose already in the lead). 

They're toying with the loyalty of both the end
customer who uses the products and the consultants and
bp's who sell to the end user.  

It's nice to host easy400 somewhere (I am very
disappointed that it is offline) but it would be short
sighted to (as much as I hate to concede Joe Pluta's
point!) to develop something that IBM refuses to
support (that's worse than IBM merely looking the
other way.)  

I don't understand how they think a loyal as/400
customer would buy websphere just because he is an
as/400 customer, though.  And, once they have an
application that uses a j2ee app server, why do they
think the customers will stay with db2/400?  As great
as it is, it's too expensive if it's all it offers
you.  How many as/400 sales are tied to the primary
application purchased by the company?  100%?  Free
those bonds and you'll probably find the customers
(end customers who actually pay the bills) weren't
loyal - they were captive.

Yes, I would like to have heard that marketing pitch.

Phil


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