Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.


> From: Chris Rehm <javadisciple@earthlink.net>
>
> > So you think that the whole reason IBM developed the AS/400 in the first
> > place was to milk it to death today?
>
> II don't think you can draw that conclusion

You are the one who stated that conclusion. I was merely trying to clarify
your statements.

> > How did they know?
> >
>
> Every product that has built up a user base gets into that phase
> sooner or later, so this is not hard to know.

But didn't you state that reaching this point was part of a "carefully
planned
and executed strategy." Are you revising that to state that you feel the
AS/400 has reached "that phase" as part of a normal process of "every
product?"

Personally, I don't know that the AS/400 has necessarily reached "that
phase" if you mean the phase where it is just dying and the vendor simply
makes his money maintaining the installed base. I think that might very well
be the state of the green screen apps. But the iSeries is being marketed as
a server and there are many uses for servers. We'll see if it can grow into
some other markets.

Chris Rehm
javadisciple@earthlink.net
If you believe that the best technology wins the
marketplace, you haven't been paying attention.


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