RE: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Don:
>...the guy wanted
>to know how fast we could go to a intel platform where he didn't have to
>pay for interactive through the ....

That's where this guy misses the point.  Interactive processing as we know
it on the AS/400 doesn't exist on an NT server.  Who hooks up a bunch of
workstations (real or virtual) to an NT server?  If you're going to an Intel
platform you've switched to an applications architecture where interactive
is irrelevant, and it's possibly an architecture you can run on an iSeries
with no Interactive Feature.

I'm not defending Interactive Feature pricing by any means -- my opinions on
the matter have been pretty clear.  It is, however, frustrating when folks
responsible for choosing technology don't know the differences between the
platforms.  I've worked with people who only care if it's GUI.  They
wouldn't know if it was fat-client, n-tier, or web-enabled, and wouldn't
know the layered product and administrative costs of each.

-Jim

James P. Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com>