Re: MidrangeNews at it again

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trevor,

You either missed or chose to not post the other ad:

"Businesses have relied heavily on AS/400 applications for their 
reliability and strength through many years of technology changes. 
Relying on an application and being tied down to outdated technology are 
two different concepts. "


The phrase "tied down to outdated technology" is what riled me.



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Trevor Perry wrote:

> > From their current "news".... http://www.midrangenews.net/Detail.asp?ID=303
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> iSeries Revenues Drop 18% in Q-4
>
> Naturally, many iSeries end-users and ISV's who haven't made decisions about 
> how and when they will migrate their applications are now seeking ways to 
> move them to platforms that are not seeing this level of decline, such as 
> Windows or Linux.
> Naturally, many companies are seeking the easiest, least cost and least time 
> consuming way to migrate their iSeries applications and have found that 
> INFINITE iSERIES from California Software provides a complete set of 
> compilers, utilities and tools to accomplish the project on time and under 
> budget.  To find out more about migrating iSeries applications to Windows or 
> Linux, visit www.californiasoftware.com
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> "Naturally"????
> "move them to platforms that are not seeing this level of decline"????
>
> I was going to be surprised by this "news", but then I realized the source. 
> I do hope that this kind of complete MISinformation is not taken seriously 
> by the IT community, and that iSeries customers are not duped into thinking 
> that the iSeries is in decline or that Windows projects are more "on time 
> and under budget" than any other solution.
>
>