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No offense taken, Chuck...:-D Your definition of "captive" also is good... It sure IS easier to hop from *nix to *nix...! But in the sense I'm using the word, folks are "captive" to the interactive feature, because they don't want to spend the dough re-engineering their apps. As James Kilgore said, you pay one way or t'other... jt | -----Original Message----- | From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com | [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Chuck Lewis | Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 4:23 PM | To: midrange-l@midrange.com | Subject: Re: Changed to: Interactive Tax | | | jt wrote: | | <There are plenty of tools that allow you to re-engineer your | applications, to a | client/server mode that bypasses the interactive "tax". Few, however, can | afford the massive expense of re-engineering their apps. That's | why many refer | to iSeries customers as "captive".> | | jt, no offense but my understanding of the term "captive" in | regards to the | AS/400 has always been that it would be so hard to move off of | the AS/400 to | something else because of the integrated data base, etc. In the | Unix world it is | pretty easy to hop from Sun to HP... | | Chuck
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