Re: 2005 best year for iSeries in a DECADE

Booth,

Totally agree, it's been allowed to become a Niche product...just like
OS/2...

I just wish there were more niches that would let it fit it... :)



> The point remains, Don, that the i5 is here, it is real, it exists.  It
> is, and always has been, a niche product.  It's only market has always
> been the organizations that want one phone number to call for everything
> from the wall outlet to the user training.  That market is a collection
> of strong, long-lived, and focused organizations that know what they
> want.  There always will be these organization, and there always will be
> bosses of them that say "let us focus on our core business, not our back
> office."
>
> Attempts to position the i5 as competition to  all of the other
> mixed-product offerings out there are doomed to fail, just as they've
> failed for the past 30 years.
>