RE: The status quo and the future...

["Nicolay, Paul" <paul_nicolay@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

One would guess that they learned from it ?

Why spending billions on someone else's technology hoping that it helps
against M$ ?  Why not just spending the money on your own technology, and
give OS/400 (running on Intel) for free to every kid at every corner on the
street.

Free, free and free is the only reason that one even talks about Linux...
and definitely not the quality of the OS (then they would better talk about
OS/400), not the fact that it is open source (another hype... just guess how
many people are really capable of reading, or writing kernel code), not the
number of business applications (if we should be happy with OpenOffice ?),
not the quality of the GUI (each application has a different key combination
to quit from it, not to mention the different incompatible desktop
managers), not...

In Europe (the States may be different) kids install on their home PCs what
they can copy (for free or not, legal or illegal, it doesn't matter) and
learn about that technology.  Not exactly a good start to build a future
base of people who know IBM and iSeries.

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard B Baird [mailto:rbaird@esourceconsulting.com]
Sent: 11 March, 2002 14:18
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: The status quo and the future...

... snip ...

IBM put a lot of thier eggs into the java basket a few years ago.  it
didn't take off like they wanted, even though the product was superior.
Now they're putting a ton of eggs into the linux basket.  will it work?
don't know - but they gotta try.  the alternative is stagnation.