The age old question:

[rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

situation:  A friend of mine works for a small business where they've had
an iseries running the business for quite a while, but the owner is
considering converting to an NT based system (for no good reason, IMO).

they are on V4R5 (they still use Officevision for a couple very important
things), and IBM won't continue to support them unless they upgrade.

some of thier current processes need to be modernized, (credit card
processing via modem, OV, things like that), and they've been burned by
consultants in the past and are gun shy.

the decision on conversion has been put off for a year, and they're looking
for options.   They don't want to commit to the cash to upgrade the
iseries, replace OV, etc, if they're going to go with the NT package.

My friend, rightly, is trying to convince them to stick with the iseries -
The system they use now is a heavily modified rpg package, and is now very
specific to thier line of work and would be difficult to replace with any
package, iseries, NT or anything else.   But it is a bit unwealdy, and the
perception of course is that it's old fashioned.  She needs ammo to back up
her advice.

I know this has been asked and answered, a thousand times, ad-nauseum, but
I've spent a while searching the archives and am not coming up with exactly
what I was looking for.

I remember a thread or even a single post or web page that put the
pros-cons together succinctly on the NT vs. iseries.   anyone remember it
and have it bookmarked?

Rick