Re: easy400 site needs your support

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil,

Sounds like yet another nail in the 400's coffin.  IFF people have to make
all that much of a major paradigm shift, I wonder how many will goto .net
instead???

Don in DC



On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Phil Groschwitz wrote:

> 
> > 
> > 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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