RE: Prometheus

Paul,

The s/36 conversion market, that is for the marketing experts to decide, doesnt 
affect me one way or the other.

What I would like to do is write i5 applications that are used in the millions? 
of offices of local school boards, doctors, accountants, pharmacists, 
libraries, etc in the civilized world. But how many customers can I target when 
the price of my code starts at $10k or even $5K for the base system. That seems 
nuts to me. Much better for IBM to settle for xxx number of dollars for each 
user of the application I write.

-Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 6:22 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Prometheus


<<your proposing IBM market a system that is a dog when it runs VB client 
code? XML based web services need a lot of cpu to parse the xml streams. 
Will apps that use web services also run poorly? If so, the mini i5 does 
not sound like a good idea.>>

Steve,

Who really cares about this if they are running a green screen 
application? The point is to get the SMALL customers in the SMB space to 
get current with the technology, and then they can move forward. I can 
name you half a dozen companies who are still running in the S/36 
environment because their software works and don't want to spend a pile of 
money. The OS software currency fees are exorbitant, so they would be 
better off geting an iSis and just relicensing the new OS software.