RE: New list proposal - OSS400 - iSeries open source software

Brad,

This one's a keeper... :-)

It'll make a great webpage...!

jt

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| From: midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com
| [mailto:midrange-nontech-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Brad Jensen
| Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:03 AM
| To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
| Subject: Re: New list proposal - OSS400 - iSeries open source software
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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
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| > On Wed, 09 January 2002, Martin Rowe wrote:
| >
| > > And let's face it, the iSeries is a niche server
|
| Ýeah, 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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