RE: Free OS/400

["Schenck, Don" <Don.Schenck@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually ...

In Business-Speak .... when a company says "We will NEVER ..." or "We have
NO INTENTION ..." ... that means THEY _WILL_.

Guaranteed.

-- Don Schenck

-----Original Message-----
From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@leif.org]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:09 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Free OS/400


> While we may not like how certain things are marketed, handled or
perceived
the
> computer system iSeries (formerly the AS/400) is not going away.  It will
> change, evolve, have the operating system renamed.
>
> Here is a quote from Buell Duncan:
>
> 'let me be crystal clear,  we have absolutely no intention of moving away
from
> the iseries and as/400 architecture...now or in the future.   if anything,
the
> integration around os/400 that makes it so strong in the market is
becoming
more
> and more important as businesses are even more focused on controlling
their
> total costs.'

Man, aren't you naive!
That's what they said about OS/2 and just about any other discontinued
"strategic" product, SAA, AD/Cycle, Off-Vision, etc, etc.



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