RE: Thats all folks!

I strongly agree, and market domination becomes so because the demand is
there, and the demand is for other than 'old' proprietary.  This is
exacerbated by the fact that the tech supply coming out of our learning
institutions know some-form-of-IX, and JAVA and C...not OS400 and RPG and
COBOL.

Ray Shahan

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans", John Lennon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Monnier [SMTP:gary.monnier@powertechgroup.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:07 PM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: Thats all folks!
>
> Ray,
>
> I've been keeping out of this so far but now have to add my two cents and
> then I go back to keeping out of it.  You forgot to include Microsoft's
> and
> Apple's operating systems.  They too are proprietary.
>
> I strongly disagree with the notion of proprietary being the cause of
> OS/400's image issue.  The most ubiquitous OS (Windows) in the current
> world
> is proprietary.  It is also, according the press, the most hacked OS in
> the
> world.  At one time IBM was the most ubiquitous purveyor of computers and
> related items.  Microsoft beat them at their own game when they realized
> software, in particular the OS, was how to dominate the market.  When you
> dominate the market you get to set the standard.
> This IMHO is why Microsoft is so concerned about Linux and Java and why
> IBM,
> Sun, HP, etc. are pushing them so hard.  Proprietary has nothing to do
> with
> it.  Market domination has everything to do with it.
>