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It is amazing how arrogant some of the old hands appear in this list. No
wonder there are no new subscribers to OUR platform. (Within OUR I include
myself, because if AS/400 Division made fridges I'd buy one. If they made
cars, I'd drive one). If this arrogance is the jist of the responses to
enquiries from newbies, how the hell do you expect them to post legitimate
questions?!!!

I was punting this forum to some of my customers this evening. They are in a
situation where their management is considering moving off the AS/400 (iSeries
is just another name for technological perfection!!). I said to them that they
are our guns and that this list (along with the non-techno list) is the
ammunition that they require to defend the platform. With the kind of arrogant
B***S*** that is sometimes being flung around here, I should have directed
them to a more subservient (yet less potent) list. I admit that many of the
people here are very helpful,

Sometimes even the detractors of other systems can be less damaging than the
egotism found on this list. Folks, please realize that you are sometimes a
last resort of the one who is either trying to protect this platform in his
company, or of one who is trying to introduce it due to the technical
capabilities inherent within the system. I see all this rhetoric regarding
FAST400, CFINT and other aspects of IBM trying to nail us. All I have read so
far is the negative aspects of this! Believe me , I am also up to HERE  with
the pressures placed on us to either fit in or get out  of this platform (I
have a posting due one of these days on that topic). How about some positive
counter statements to these arguments. We have jt, Joe, Al, Leif, NEIL,et al,
who are (sometimes negative, but always with a positive slant) that provide
good feedback. Sometimes a product does get punted, but this is also positive!
(albeit incorrect) It must be said that the product is often put forth as it
may be the example that is closest to home.

I am not suggesting that we all be schoolboys adhering to the behavioral
requests of the headmaster, neither that we forsake the emotive responses to
our peers. Let us just not be as arrogant as some of those are who communicate
within the lists that we consider to be our opposition. We are here to
interact, divulge information (non-strategic) and to encourage those
uninformed ones out there to reach technological Nirvana .Or am I wrong about
this list?? If so, please chastise me and banish me, as I may possibly have
more productive time that I can spend on other (related) lists.

Forgive the ranting and ravings of one who absolutely loves the AS/400, to the
extent that he would give his wife's life for it (   :)      )


Cheers from sunny South Africa.
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