Re: Biggest issue facing YOUR IBM i shop? -- MIDRANGE-L

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+1 to Booth and Buck.

I especially agree with Booth's comments about strategic advantage, which tie with Buck's comments about how the IBM i has a lot of strategic potential, but nobody sees it that way.

Maybe I would add, based on Joel's comment that people "don't want to be in the software business", that people think you have to be "in the software businesss" to have a custom setup. Yes, in a way, you do, but people who are only "in the software
business" write compilers and operating systems. As has been pointed out on this list before, most of us are in some other business -- we just use software to help that business survive and grow.

I'm in the wire business -- I use software to help my busines the same way the sales people use Excel and the engineers use AutoCad and the maintenance guys use welders. My job is to build tools that help my business, and software is just the medium that
I do it in. The challenge is to get management to see it that way (luckily, here they mostly do), so that they're thinking about what tools they'd like to have rather than how expensive I am and how much space I take up.

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