RE: NT vs AS/400

...as long as you don't use Linux, it is cancer you know...

-----Original Message-----
From: John Bussert [mailto:jbussert@stecnet.com]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 12:41 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: NT vs AS/400



This may sound funny, but it was not all that long ago when the 400 was
being attacked as a closed system.  Then UNIX vendors push the issue,
then eventually Microsoft and NT did.  I just came back from an XP
presentation by MS and it is VERY clear that they do not want an open
system,  but a single vendor solution.   Microsoft everywhere, desktop,
server, hand help, refrigerator, coffee machine and game box. Hold on, I
feel the walls closing all around.  As long as you where MS blue, you'll
be OK, else, you will be hooked to the wrong vendor and product
(according to MS - that is).  Some strategies keep coming around even
though the vendor changes.

john

John Bussert
jbussert@swiftorder.com
847-289-8339
Swift Technologies, Inc.
www.swiftorder.com
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