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Hi again,

I'd love to hear from those who do write for iSeries Network, Scott Klement for instance.

Since I didn't know much about this topic, I send Joe's original message to Wayne Madden, our Editor in Chief, for a more "official" response to this issue.


Here's his response:

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Scott,

We are partnering with Microsoft on a roadshow about interoperability and choices, with the iSeries as the center of attention. In other words, the presentations, including the presentation from Microsoft will focus on the choices developers have in creating applications that take advantage of various technologies and leveraging your iSeries investment. This is not about migrating off of the platform and this is why they came to us. We designed the program content to focus clearly on giving iSeries developers more choices and in fact, the key point of this is to create an environment where developers and other iSeries professionals can be "yes" people, instead of "no" people.

What do I mean? Many times, when a department approaches your management team and says, "we found this cool windows application, or we want to integrate our data with this cool application", they get a "no" answer .. meaning, "we can't do that" or "we don't want to do that". Once you say no, then departments find a way to go around and get what they want and start to squeeze the iSeries and iSeries professionals. We want to have a healthy discussion about all your choices, including iSeries only and certainly iSeries - Windows development/integration technologies that give you the ability to say "yes" when faced with those challenges immediately. In fact, you can say "yes" and at the same time run those Windows applications on your iSeries or certainly make the iSeries the key platform involved in those solutions.

We're also going to be doing some very interesting things regarding the official IBM Roadmap, so watch for that as well.

Our role is to represent our readership. Our readers have iSeries family (AS/400 of course) systems. At the same time, our customers face all of these challenges, including the Windows challenge. We want the iSeries to be the central platform of choice for all business solutions -- it certainly can be! -- but at the same time we need to deliver education, etc. that assist in making choices on how to integrate technologies.

So .. are we in bed with Microsoft? Are we in bed with BCD? Are we in bed with IBM? Are we in bed with iTera? .. or any other vendor. No. Our market includes our readers and also IBM and third-party providers that bring you solutions and choices. It's good to be objective about the realities we face.

If anyone has any questions, they can certainly email me personally. You know I'm available and willing to talk. wmadden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Wayne Madden Group Publisher / Editor in Chief IBM Technology Group Penton Technology Media (970) 203-2864

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