RE: OS/400 command set

["Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>]

> From: Mike Haston ** Data [mailto:MJH@jny.com]
>
> There must be some reason M$ runs its business on iSeries!

If they still do, as the urban legend states, then it's more than likely the 
very same reason that other businesses tend not to entertain the idea of 
switching platforms (*whatever* they are using) - the momentum needed for large 
business to switch from say Sun/Oracle to iSeries/DB2 is enormous.

Like having audits, large businesses would rather not *ever* have to switch the 
software/hardware that their business runs on. I'm sure there's a critical 
business size (number of customers; number of products; or what have you) that 
once reached & passed makes it very difficult to do the move in some PhD thesis 
somewhere...

--phil