Re: Calling names - System i5

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I understand, Don.

I would point out that this situation has existed, excepting for the y2k 
blip, since the 1980s.  Thats going on 20 years now that I have heard 
the same story.

But never any real facts.

I have said repeatedly that if Moore's Law makes it so that you need to 
double sales every 18 months just to stay even, at some point that 
stops.  It does not mean death however.



Don wrote:
> 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
> >   
> >     
>
>