Re: Free OS/400

> Service their software by changing it? Man, everyone I know is staying out
> of changes in JDE. They write software around it!
>
services as in big b2b projects
hardware may be more commodity, selling huge qty to big ASP, ISP, etc
imagine an iSeries ASP buying twenty 840's or a thousand 270's
soon you will get all your network services like mail,Word, Excel, from big
providers
who will need lot's of hardware (that run's 24x7x365 - eLiza?). My current
customer
would dump their pc network (which has been up/down all week) in a heartbeat
for
a monthly payment on a secure network with all the features.
IBM's only in the software business with OS's, WebSphere, and
middleware pieces like MQ-Series. WebSphere & MQ-you don't "change"
these apps, you implement them (more services).
How do you keep generating billions in revenue each & every year? This is
one way.
Rochester missed the boat years ago by not buying into non-proprietary
standards.
They put some IP features in way back in V2 or late V1, and then always
stayed
behind the market. What we needed is the reliability & quality, that can
talk/interact
with everything else. With V5R1, in the year 2001, we got closer.
btw-comment from earlier posts-the as/400-iSeries is and has been a
graphical machine
for many years. We, the customers are the one's who chose not to use the
tools to
do it. Just because we have a command line interface still running (which
your users
should NEVER see) a variety of Visual tools, ibm & others, have been around
for years.
IBM even made a Visual rpg tool. But we kept resisting, "well it's not like
subfiles".
Would you say the same about every Unix box, that it's not graphical?
jim


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