RE: midrange modernization tour question

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can tell yourself whatever you want, but this is Bill's show, and is
planned to do nothing but give him some credibility among people who
would otherwise know better.  The man's devious, but not dumb.

Here is the reality: If Gates had his way, every iSeries on the planet
would be replaced by SQL Server tomorrow.  You know that, I know that,
everyone involved with this traveling show knows that.  Microsoft and
ASNA hatched the MAP specifically and solely to move iSeries customers
to Windows.

All the other players in this game are pawns whom Bill will gladly
sacrifice when endgame rolls around.

Joe

P.S. Anybody who has gotten the misguided notion that Microsoft just
wants to peacefully coexist with the iSeries, please remember Apple and
Windows or IBM and OS/2: that's how Microsoft plays with its partners.

As to the iSeries, the facts speak just as loud: SQL Server has no DRDA
interface and no ODBC driver for OS/400.  If Microsoft were REALLY
serious about coexistence, the platforms would be joined at the hip
already... and that'll happen just about the time that pigs are flying
over the Cubs as they win the World Series on a snow-covered baseball
field in Hell.


> From: Trevor Perry
> 
> Contrary to popular misconception, this is not a seminar about moving
away
> from the iSeries. I would personally encourage you to attend if you
can. I
> am certainly having a great time presenting, and it provides me a
forum to
> evangelize the iSeries and its future.