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----- Original Message ----- From: <thomas@inorbit.com> To: <midrange-nontech@midrange.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:18 PM Subject: Re: New list proposal - OSS400 - iSeries open source software > On Wed, 09 January 2002, Martin Rowe wrote: > > > And let's face it, the iSeries is a niche server Żeah, the niche of scalable, reliable, professional, and complete application servers. Any kind of company or organization. Any kind of business application. Tell me something that is not a 'niche server'? Give me three examples please? Unix is not a server, it is the basic building blocks of an operating system that is thirty years old, and has dozens of slightly different implementations. The AS/400 is the rock solid applications server with tens of thousands of applications that serves the businesses that have transformed the world. If you could magically turn off all the AS/400s in the world, everyone would be out of work by the end of the week. If your business does not depend on an AS/400 directly, it depends on other businesses who do use AS/400s. When Linux can host OS/400, instead of the other way around, come and toot your horn. They AS/400 has done as much for the USA as the Interstate Hiway System. No one would sit down today and write a new operating system that looked like Unix. It's a fossil. Unix' number one feature was its cheap price at a time when computer vendors could no longer afford to continue proprietary operating system development. The AS/400 is so good, it has made a stellar success of itself even powered by the world's ugliest programming language, RPG. If open source is really open, you can use it in proprietary packages also. Otherwise it is just another ego-trip by controlfreaks who are too chicken to stand up and be financially responsible for themselves. One man's opinion. I've been there, done that, and own SEVERAL t-shirts. And yes, I use Unix too - for mail servers and other single-function general purpose servers. Had to pull the Linux because it was too hackable. Brad Jensen
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