Re: Mid Range News Response

[Mike.Crump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Well, I for one would not believe one word from them.........




                                                                           
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I had previously sent an email (I know I should not do that as it typically
wastes my time on issues that do not directly affect me) to Mid Range News
and here is basically the no response response:

"Thank you for your note.  We always welcome hearing from people in the
iSeries community even when they disagree with us.  We are, however, always
interested in reporting on factually correct information.  If there is a
factual  error that has been made, please let us know what is.  We will
investigate it and if we find it is inaccurate, we will gladly retract it.

I must share with you that it seems that California Software has gotten
a "bad rap" for wishing to dismantle the iSeries community and that is
simply not true.  We love the AS/400 environment, it's why we believe it
should have the ability to operate on other platforms and with other
databases and have created the ability to do just that.  We feel that the
future of the environment and the applications developed within it have a
stronger future with the freedom to run on Linux, Windows or Unix
platforms,
IN ADDITION to the i5.

Whether you agree with us or not, we are still pleased to hear from you."