Re: now THIS is a marketing program

On 5/21/07, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Do you know that this group comprises primarily System i proponents
and
>evangelists? Promoting a server that is inferior is rather
inappropriate for
>this forum.

But this list (and more accurately, many companies represented on this
list) are also very big proponents of burying their heads in the sand
and ignoring progress. If you want an example, look at the adoption rate
of ILE, or the HTML capabilities of most (NOT ALL!!!) iSeries
programmers;

in defense of those who have not adopted, ILE should be easier to use.
If the srvpgm had better support for reflection there would be no need
for PR specs. signature violations are confusing, there is no need for
them if ILE is modernized.

VB.NET programmers commonly use class library assemblies. How many VB6
programmers used COM to the extent of its capabilities?

on this page is bill zeitler talking to investors last week:
http://www.ibm.com/investor/events/analyst0507/index.phtml

he says the power6 being announced on monday will have twice the
performance with the same power usage as the power5. Great news, but
bad for sales of our system over the next few quarters as customers
wait for the 7600CPW system i6 models to be announced.

-Steve