MMT: Maddening, Misrepresenting and Tedious

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These aren't anti-Microsoft, Trevor, they're anti-MAP (and those
associated with the MAP).  I think I've been pretty clear about that:

Any iSeries vendor who throws in with those who sell tools to migrate
iSeries applications to Windows are, in my opinion, opportunists of the
worst kind (the migration vendors themselves deserve a special
appellation to which I can't even give words).

And the MMT is simply a pawn in the hands of the MAP, designed solely to
give credibility to quite possibly the most ruthless and least
trustworthy businessman on the planet.

But that doesn't make me anti-Microsoft.  More importantly, it doesn't
mean that I think iSeries folks should ignore Windows.  iSeries shops
will still have to communicate with Excel and query tools, and may even
have to integrate with a shrink-wrapped application or two.  But don't
WRITE anything on the platform, and for Heaven's sake don't store any
critical data on it.

Joe

> From: Trevor Perry
> 
> Joe wrote on Apr 13:
> 
> > And the iSeries vendors who are joining this MAP, especially when it
> > was originally created by ASNA and Microsoft specifically to move
> > people off of the iSeries, well I believe there's a special ring of
Hell
> > for those folks.
> 
> Joe wrote on Jan 8:
> > The "Midrange Alliance Program" is Microsoft taking DIRECT aim at
> > the iSeries, encouraging people to move off the platform to some
> > cobbled-together wannabe.
> 
> > "One .NET to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."