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As a shareholder, that pleases me.

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:43 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
it takes longer to write and deploy an application on i5/OS than Windows.
the reasons are all technical. C# and .NET are far superior to RPG/ILE.

Yeah, but it's easier to keep running that legacy S/38 software and
buy new hardware every 5 years than to keep current with technology.

IBM doesn't care - every piece of POWER hardware sold is 90-95% profit.


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