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

You interpreted wrong.

"non-professionals" as in people that don't work with computers for a
living.  You don't have "people that do not work with computers for a
living" running an AS/400 at home to "mess with it".  You DO have that for
windows and *nix people.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Myers - MM" <jmyersmm@sbsusa.com>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:39 AM
Subject: 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