Revenues down in 3RD quarter.

["Shields, Ken" <kenshields@xxxxxxx>]

Rebuttal:
        - Packed decimal representation of data was an IBM fondling, designed 
early in computing
          history to save disk space...ps, have a terra byte...
        - Character set code pages will always be required in multi-lingual 
settings, I just don't see 
          a Country or Language called IBM...CCSID is the mechanism
        - We're not switching to Ascii when ftpying files, we're converting 
data to Ascii (time loss)
        - If you've gotten fond of the nice Gui of other clients, I suspect one 
day there will be no OS400
          How about a Midrange poll, on the suggestion of desktop OS400?  Maybe 
David
          can orchestrate it.I honestly think, most developers would lov to 
have it on their desktops.
        - As for C.A., it's simply a wonderful Gui, EBCDIC to ASCII translation 
engine. 

Sorry, but IBM keeps trying to make their own stream, but the fish are just not 
coming.

E&OE
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