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Re: Re: BI / Reporting tools

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doing so is often responsible for people migrating from an open system
like IBM i to an old proprietary legacy system like Dos/Windows.

Don't take this as a challenge, just an honest question. Well, questions:

In what way is IBM i an "open system"?

Is AS/400 also open, and just old and legacy; or is it proprietary in
the same way that DOS/Windows is proprietary?

Just trying to clarify terminology.

John Y.

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