RE: Format of these messages

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
>we haven't had downtime in 8 years

Wow! You must be running V2R1 since you can't have upgraded in 8 years if
you haven't been down.

Oh, you mean unscheduled down time <G>, run a clustered NT environment and
you're unlikely to have downtime, scheduled or not.

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 20:02
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Format of these messages



I'm just tired of the "Windows it the only way"  "MS Office is the
only way" attitude.   It just seems unstoppable.

My message wasn't so much directed at Dan as it was just a general
frustration...  Someone says to me "my e-mail server sucks.  It loses
messages, it crashes"  and I tell them to use Unix and Sendmail.  They then
immediately try to find ANY EXCUSE not to use that, just because it's not
Windows.

The same with business apps on the the iSeries.   They complain that their
NT server is down AGAIN, and I say "so run your business on an iSeries, we
haven't had downtime in 8 years" and they immediately do everything they can
to stay with their NT server.

Because they don't want to use one of those complicated and terrible Unix
machines, or those horrible old legacy AS/400's.   Not even willing to try
anything but Microsoft.


On Thu, 2 May 2002 MWalter@hanoverwire.com wrote:
>
> I can see Scott's face getting redder and redder as he types.
>

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