Re: Why can't we eat our own cooking?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The issue of "need"  is all in my head.  David has everything up and 
running, it seems.   

It just seems that if the System i is such an all-fired great machine 
that it should be able to compete in some way with what David, and 
others, are using. 

Gosh, if we System i bigots can't make a case for using the System i in 
this very real-life situation, then how can we expect normal people to 
choose System i? 

In other words, can we eat our own cooking?

Doug Palme wrote:
> I cannot speak for anyone else but I would be willing to contribute towards
> a new box if that was needed.  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:33 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Why can't we eat our own cooking?
>
> Why can't we eat our own cooking?
>
> It has always bugged me that David, who runs this list out of his own 
> pocket, as a unpaid hobby, has had to make the business decision to not 
> use System i.   If there is any place at all that can show us how to use 
> System i for our work as we involve our businesses with the Internet, it 
> is David and these lists that he maintains.  If he can do it, so can;t 
> we.  If he can't, then maybe we can't, either?
>
> Would the heavy hitters on this list please make the case with the right 
> people to get David to Rochester for a week or so to get a new box 
> properly configured, and send him home with it?   Please?  There are 
> some Important People that read this list, and their words will carry 
> weight, especially if their efforts are deliberate and unified.
>
> (I understand this post is way off topic, but then again, maybe it is 
> exactly on topic?)
>
>
>