Re: New names

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do work with many shops, and other than one corp buyout by a shop with no AS400s, I have

not seen any drop their 400s. What I have seen, is an explosion of Win servers for network

apps like e-mail, pc based apps, Citrix, etc. If appropriate, I fight for the 400

to host these applications. But the 400 staff has to be willing to get into the 21st century,

run browser based apps, do something more than they did 10 years ago. IBM blew it years

ago when everyone was adding e-mail, and the 400 e-mail from IBM was interesting, but

hardly competitive. They now have Lotus working well with the 400, WebSphere is coming

on, CGI based web apps has been running for years, Net.Data for years. It's up to

us to promote these in our shops. Just keeping the legacy apps going will kill the system. 

imho - jim

----- Original Message -----

From: Avi Hecht

To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 9:44 AM

Subject: New names

Hi all,

 

Lately I see shop after shop moving away from the AS/400 to other

platforms such as NT, UNIX etc, But no new names to the AS/400 .

 

Is it only in Israel or all over ?

 

Thanks,

Avi