Re: NT vs AS/400

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

John T. said;
>John, I know you as a tireless champion of this platform. I've read your
>comments on this list, and on many different forums across the net. I
>suspect that you're one of the ones who won't let go of that black box in
>the corner unless they pry it from your cold, dead fingers. :)  I respect
>that, and even admire it to a certain degree, but I don't share your level
>of commitment. The reason for that is because I don't see IBM sharing your
>level of commitment. At best, they've been sending mixed signals for a
long
>time now.

John, et al

I do what I where I can,  As Bob Tipton did in his way.   As I said before,
I can't argue with your logic John, Nor can I argue with your conclusions
from a pragmatist's perspective.  I understand them, and appreciate them.
And Yes,  Corporate IBM (not Rochester) does indeed seem to want a simple
world of Linux and Win2000.  There is certainly more money in service
selling them(For Global Services) than selling an iSeries.

I think IBM is hearing your points too(at least part of IBM).  The sad part
is that we DON'T know IBM's 5 or 10 year plan.  We don't know if eServer is
phaseI of the uServer machine.  The PowerPC seems to be doing well.  At
this point it seems to be doing better than Intel's attempts at 64bits (and
everyone else's).   I know,  that's PowerPC not OS/400.

It may not be the future, but a possible future,  The PowerPC can run
Linux,  OS/400, AIX, and it could run Win(if MS wanted to do the port and
hedge it's bet against Intel's follies and Linux's rise).
I believe that it could be technologically possible to even run MVS on the
S-Star PowerPC.

Wouldn't it be something if OS/400 was the controlling partition on a
uServer that runs all of them?

Well....taking my rose colored idealist's glasses off,  Yes, I will morn
the day if your conclusions come into reality.  and Yes,  I will fight the
fight till then(my fingers are cold but not quite dead yet :-) ).

However make no mistake that I am listening to you John, and appreciate
that you saying it.

Respectfully
John Carr

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