RE: Native GUI (was Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch)

It is difficult to work from home when you are a forklift driver in the 
warehouse, please see my earlier e-mail about network downtime. WHY oh WHY MUST 
there be only ONE solution??????? Why cannot the old mingle with the new? 
Brilliant if you have unlimited funds and resources and the backup to be able 
to ensure that nothing goes wrong ever, but in the REAL world this is not 
always the case. And so horror of horrors we have old terminals because there 
is no need to change them to something LESS reliable just because it is more 
modern and you dont want to give the wrong impression, like the guys in the 
warehouse give a damn whether we have a commodore 64, an iSeries or a 
Megadoodle 6500!!! They and the majority of people using computers just want to 
be able to do their job. 



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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]Namens Jones, John (US)
Verzonden: maandag 11 december 2006 15:10
Aan: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Onderwerp: RE: Native GUI (was Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than
Switch)



1. Dumb terminals are a dead end.  It's way past time to move on.  It
doesn't matter if they're more reliable, cheaper, more efficient, or
have other superior traits.  They've lost the battle.  This isn't just
my opinion and I don't say it because terminals don't work for my
situation; it's the opinion of the market.  Goodbye, Betamax.  For those
of you who still use dumb tubes, I have to ask in what way do they NOT
promote the idea of the iSeries being an ugly, old, outdated system?
Also, there're no reasonable capability to support mobile and home-based
workers.  Without raising a lot of concerns over security, buying a lot
of extra equipment, and other things there's no ability to deploy access
via dumb terminal to customers.