Re: NT vs AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

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From: John Taylor <john.taylor@telusplanet.net>
> My beef is with the price gouging taking place in the iSeries marketplace.
> And they get away with it time and again because we never take them to task
> over it. The AS/400 community praises this platform and it's creators as
> though they were holy.

the reality is quite simple:
1) IBM wants to get rid off the AS/400 (it is competing with RS/6000 and with
low-end mainframes)
2) Green-screen and RPG customers can't go anywhere else, so let's milk
them as much as we can while we have them.

If we accept the above two points, there is no mystery; everything
makes eminent sense.



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