Re: Cheaper Servers?

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why would you want OS/400 on a laptop?

Isn't iSeries geared towards a backend solution?    What would you
demonstrate to the cusotmer?

Plus, what could you show them on a laptop running it native that you just
couldn't show from a laptop you bring in with a modem and just connect to an
AS/400 located somewhere else?  Or on the customer's PC over the internet?

The idea of puting a server OS on a laptop to take to a customer to show off
its amazing "thin client" abilitites seems rather counter-productive.

The post doesn't make much sense to me.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Bull [mailto:Jeff.Bull@ITM-group.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 10:40 AM
> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Cheaper Servers?
>
>
> ... imagine an average laptop computer ... how many times more powerful
and
> capacious than many of the AS/400 models of old.
> ... now imagine all those AS/400 / iSeries product salesmen in IBM, BPs,
> trying to compete with the Unix and MS based salesmen; ok, which group can
> actually demonstrate their products, and with more ease ... and in the
> prospects own office?
>
> OS/400 on a laptop would be an incredible marketing tool, every iSeries
> salesperson would want one, need one.  It would put them on a level
playing
> field with those other application vendors.  Even if IBM didn't directly
> make a profit from a laptop
> iSeries, the increase in sales of larger systems would surely and
adequately
> compensate.
>
> How many iSeries based home workers are there out in the world?  IBM, give
> us a CHEAP and practical laptop / single-user desktop version of OS/400 -
if
> there is no demand, create one.  Televisions, microwave ovens, mobile
> phones, home computers - all inventions that most people don't really
need,
> but they nearly all have them.
>
> This is another example of IBM falling out of touch with the needs and
> desires of their customers.
>
> Jeff Bull