Re: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...

Adam,

Please don't refer to folks who use the other architectures as "not as professional" ... the opposite may be true in many cases!

I would say that there is a MUCH higher degree of skill required to administer a "*nix" system than an iSeries given a similar workload. That is a KEY part of the iSeries "Value Equation" ... that it can make mere mortals extraordinary!

The AS/400 is a business machine ... intended to be used by people who don't have graduate degrees in Computer Science ... it wasn't built to do the "fun" things that you can do with the other architectures (excluding the AS/400 powered www.ScoreBook.com , of course).

Unless you have a home-based business (or are a VERY serious AS/400 developer), you won't have an AS/400 at home ...

John Myers

At 10:26 AM 1/22/2003, you wrote:

Probably due to a higher population of non-professionals in the Windows/*nix
environment.  What do you think the ratio of people owning an AS/400 at
their house and running it for fun compared to the number of people running
NT server or linux at home and runnign it for fun?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Devous" <cdevous@antigua.com>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 4:55 PM
Subject: RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...


> Quod Erat Demonstratum....
>
> This list's existence proves your point!
>
> Interesting that IBM midrange users require so few mailing lists to
support one
> another, and the *nix and windoze guys need so many, though...

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