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Re: The law of unintended consequences

From: "Reeve Fritchman" <reeve@ltl400.com>
> Wouldn't it be amusing if IBM really did have a warm spot
> in its cold corporate heart for the iSeries, only to see the product
> base erode as applications being migrated out of 5250 mode ended
> up running in non-iSeries environments?

Someday, the user interface may be HTML, instead of 5250 based.  But which
applications would move?  It's pretty hard to build an iSeries application
that doesn't  use at least some OS/400 specific features.  Data queues,
message queues, output queues, spool files, CL modules & commands, system
APIs, record level database access, security objects, RPG, backup & restore
procedures, etc.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com

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