RE: Calling names - System i5

["Don" <dr2@xxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

I'm not going to answer that directly.  I'd be accused of being negative by
the irrationally exuberant.

RATHER, I would refer you to your Local User Group's Board of Directors...
You're an ex-LUG Director, you should know enough people and as I recall,
you're still on the interlug.  Ask away...  Also, I would review the want
ads, both print and internet...and I'd ask your favorite headhunters...
But, I would TOTALLY AVOID AND IGNORE all the pom-pom'ers and irrationally
exuberant, and go to those that really understand the current market
demographics and dynamics and trends.

Don in DC



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 3:53 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Calling names - System i5

I sure wish we had some sort of facts though.   Is our platform dying?  
Or is that just the same rumor from the 1980s, and 1990s, coming around 
again?

CRPence wrote:
>    As such a horribly deficient OS, people will stop buying and using 
> i5/OS, and everybody will move to the nirvana of Windblows.  The i5/OS 
> will finally fade into oblivion so Steve can both be satisfied knowing 
> that the 10-character names were never extended and move on to some 
> other issues to harp nauseatingly.  Or perhaps one day Steve can either 
> abstain from espousing repeatedly, and ever so redundantly, about 
> generally trifling matters, or do something other than whine and pine on 
> a public forum instead of finding and using a legitimate avenue to 
> effect change.
>
> Regards, Chuck
>