RE: Thats all folks!

["Westdorp, Tom" <Tom.Westdorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:16 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Thats all folks!

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>WebSphere:  I have no idea what this is.  I keep hearing the term,
>       applied to all sorts of things, and I really don't know what
>       it means.
<snip>

It's a topical ointment, applied to old, disparate software products to give
the illusions of beauty and integration while trying to effect a
rejuvenation.  Formerly found in liquid form as 'snake oil' and now rapidly
becoming deliverable as a suppository.

Sorry, one too many websphere presentations has exacerbated my cynicism in
my old age.

<snip>
>IBM has been focusing all of it's "radical" changes in the wrong
>direction.   Instead of coming up with more ways to be like Unix, they
>should be working on more ways to stand out.

Amen!  The world needs another linux box like pestilence.

>The idea is, you write the software for the iSeries.  You deploy it
>to the iSeries.  The only platform required to use it is the iSeries.

Yes, but...  Management sees that as being locked in to proprietary systems,
and that's currently passé.  My management freaked over last summers Windows
licensing money grab.  I doubt they were alone, but BillG had them by the
&@!!s.  This view of yours, which I like, looks like just another crack at
thin client to management.

<snip>

>Get the idea?  Keep the paradigms that have always made the iSeries
>strong, but UPDATE THEM TO MODERN TIMES.

If only they had taken that track, but I fear it's too late now.