Re: NOTICE to IBM: You're all missing the point!

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arg.  Here's this line again, "work together to make it a more profitable
platform for everyone involved".  Sorry, not in my job description.  But,
seriously, if the AS/400 was 1000% more popular, or 1000% less
popular, it really wouln't effect me in the least.  I'm a programmer, and I
work for a company programming their computer system, in this case it
happens to be an IBM AS/400.  To me, a computer is a computer when
it's a job.  At first, I didn't like RPG, but now I kinda do with RPG IV,
but it's just another language.

I really feel no loyalty, or disloyalty, to the AS/400.  I feel it is a great
machine, mind you, but my heart wouldn't break it if disappeared off the
face of the earth tomorrow.  Nor if I knew it would be around for the
next zillion years or so.  Now, maybe if IBM decided to sell me one for
home at a reasonable cost, I might jump on the band wagon.  But, as it
is, it's a work machine, it's what I do at work, and when I get home I
don't have one so I jump on my Wintel box.

I haven't done anything to make the Wintel platform more popular, and
Microsoft did well enough on their own, I think.  And I have a little loyalty
to Microsoft.  Because they gave me a computer I could afford for home
use, where it's not just work.

Heart is where the home is.

Regards,

Jim Langston

"L. S. Russell" wrote:

> Yes we should serve notice but not by abandoning or threatening to
> abandon the platform we are trying to save. The only way to "save" the
> AS/400 from the threat we all perceive is to work together to make it a
> more profitable platform for everyone involved; that includes hardware
> and software vendors, IBM, consultants and IBM BP's, right down to the
> lowly hired-hand grunt programmer.

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