RE: Wow.

Joe,

To my surprise, I also notice that Look Software are participating as well?

Bob

| -----Original Message-----
| From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
| Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2005 3:18 AM
| To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
| Subject: Wow.
| 
| 
| <disclaimer>
| I write for MCPress, and have done so now for many years.  My 
| books are published by them as well, so take this post with 
| the appropriate grain of salt. </disclaimer>
| 
| I found out today that iSeries Network has leapt brazenly 
| into bed with Microsoft.  They are in fact teaming up with 
| Microsoft for the "Midrange Modernization Tour" (shall we 
| call it ".Net-apalooza") in which they promote the concept of 
| "integrating" the iSeries into your "enterprise".
| 
| By this they mean first moving your applications off of the 
| iSeries, using it as a big SQL server, and then finally 
| moving your data to SQL Server.  They pay some lip service to 
| "integration", but the primary players in this are folks like 
| ASNA and their Monarch migration tool, or Iteration2 which 
| migrates SAP customers to Microsoft Axapta.
| 
| http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/midrange/default.mspx
| 
| It's starting to get ugly, and it's interesting to watch who 
| jumps ship first.
| 
| Joe
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