Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

you are reading much too much into my words.
All I'm saying is that in any product's life there comes
a point where it is more profitable to let it die, and
that that point is real close for the AS/400,iSeries, etc.
Letting it die in such a way that you extract the maximum
amount of dollars from it requires careful execution.
IBM is good at this.

Now, after the platform is dead, you'll find that it will
live on in small niche-markets, just like MS-DOS,
the PDP-11, the Amiga, etc still live.

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Rehm <javadisciple@earthlink.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 5:56 PM
Subject: 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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