Re: DB2/400 comparisons with other relational databases (specifically Oracle and SQL Server)

Joe,
What I meant was given up trying to learn RPG-and basing my career
around the platform.Having said this-this list is a very good resource.There
is sometimes even a bit of Microsoft stuff that is real interesting for me.
My Microsoft evangisilism is all in good spirit and without malice
I still like the AS/400 platform and have spent a lot of personal money
purchasing the duke/midrange books
My only interest in the system is to learn WRKDBF and play around with with
the database and getting the Microsoft stuff connected.
Im very surprised that Mike is senior technical editor at iSeries NEWS.

Dave

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 1:25 PM
Subject: RE: DB2/400 comparisons with other relational databases
(specifically Oracle and SQL Server)


I don't understand your rather circuitous logic.  You have gone away from
the AS/400 because Mike Otey, an ODBC guy, writes a book about the AS/400,
then one about VB, and then one about SQL Server, and so that means he has
given up on the AS/400.

BRZZZT.  Wrong.  But thank you for yet another completely unfounded post.

Mike is still senior technical editor at iSeries NEWS, and his company,
TECA, still develops software to work with the AS/400:

"Our products include AS/400-platform controls for accessing information on
the IBM AS/400 system from your PC, as well as PC-platform controls. Our
controls may be used in any OLE compliant development environment."

Once again, your logic is flawed from hypothesis to conclusion.

But even so, if you, unlike Mr. Otey, have decided to "give up on the AS/400
platform", then why do you bother to read and post to this mailing list,
which is specifically geared for the AS/400?

I'm just wondering.  Your opinions are obviously anti-AS/400, and your posts
are illogical and unfounded.  Why bother?

Joe



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Server Dave
>
> Thanks Doug,
> You are correct,
> I asummed since Paul Conte partnered with Mike on the MS SQL
> Server 7 /2000
> books he must have moved on away from DB2/400
>
>  Mike Otey was the author of Client Server A/S400 --he was the guy who
> got me started with VB via this book and a few of his News/400 articles.He
> seemed
> to vanish from the AS/400 scene and later turned up as the editor for
> http://www.sqlmag.com  .Paul has also writen some stuff for the same mag.
> Well worth a look as all the back issues are online for free.Mike is
> considered  a bit
> of a guru in the Microsoft scene now.That alone was what made me
> give up on
> the
> AS/400 platform.

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