Re: Free OS/400

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: mcrump@sgcontainers.com <mcrump@sgcontainers.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:23 PM
Subject: RE: Free OS/400


>
>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.'
>
>Here is a quote from Al Zollar (Lotus CEO)
>
>'I would say iSeries is our best platform for taking out Exchange...The
iSeries
>is one of the most scalable platforms for Domino, and it
>has always been one of the most easy-to-use, drop-in platforms.'


Uhhh.. you know quotes are nice but, again, remember when quotable IBM'ers
stated that OS/2 was *S*T*A*T*E*G*I*C* ????

perhaps there is an IBM dictionary somewhere that state what they really
meant, but if IBM can see STATEGIC as 1 to 2 years, then they can quote
anybody on anything and it will have the same meaning that it had in the
past...

NADA, ZIP, ZILCH, ZERO....

me... I'm buying a backhoe....


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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"America is the land that fought for freedom and then
  began passing laws to get rid of it."

     - Alfred E. Neuman


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