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Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Way too long to read for the lack of any solution. It starts with a call to fight, carries on with a call to fight for an OUTDATED server (AS/400) and ends with suggestions for IBM to do something. That does not fly any more - we have to get off OUR collective behinds and DO something. IBM needs OUR help to keep this platform in OUR world.
You can't fight a fight for a system that is no longer available for purchase - that is, an AS/400. While we keep on calling our platform an AS/400, and still call ourselves AS/400 developers/programmers/people, we will remain stuck in the past and die the betamax death. We can write all we want about what IBM should do, but writing does nothing if you are still writing about AS/400. And this article switches between AS/400 and System i like they are the same thing. If I.T. collectively thinks AS/400 is outdated, then painting System i with the outdated "AS/400" brush is the first thing to STOP DOING.
We work on System i - this is the family of servers which WERE AS/400 servers, THEN iSeries servers, but are now System i5. You do not buy a new AS/400 from IBM - you buy a System i5 server. This is THE most modern platform on the planet, and if we just moved into the 21st century, we would not have to be "fighting the AS/400 fight". 

Fight the System i fight.
AS/400 is our past, not our present.
AS/400 is our heritage, not our future.
AS/400 is dead. Long live the System i.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Palmer" <neilpalmer400mr@xxxxxxxx> 
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:27 PM
Subject: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch



Well worth a read:

Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh120406-story03.html

Neil Palmer, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

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