Re: The Future of the AS/400 (was Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????)

That is very interesting and it also depend on your view and how you
translate that announcements.  I for one say it maybe a way to close out the
AS/400 iSeries because you have more AIX out there than you have AS/400, so
IBM may be saying to AS/400 shops to consolidate to AIX with easy roadmap on
the new so call "Convergent Technology".  My conclusion stems from the fact
that IBM never show any commitment as far as marketing the AS/400 system and
never made it easy for developers to expand the platform to outside world.
AIX will make more money for IBM than AS/400, in their opinion, because
AS/400 is too reliable, available, and dependable while AIX will fetch more
supports and technician revenue.

My 1cent.

Dare


----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Birnbaum" <gbirnba@rei.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:23 PM
Subject: RE: The Future of the AS/400 (was Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????)


> More proof of the commitment to the iSeries/AS400 is what I consider the
> most significant part of the 4/29 announcements:  The Statement of
> Direction that iSeries and pSeries will run on convergent technology and
> that within two years you will be able to order a platform that can run
> OS/400 and also native AIX in a partition managed by a hypervisor for
> the hardware resources.  Shops that have big investments in both
> platforms will have all sorts of options......  I can't wait!
>
> Glenn Birnbaum
> REI
>
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