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

[John Myers - MM <jmyersmm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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