Re: AS/400 Future Market Share

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/22/05, Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Al Mac thought other folks might find this article of interest.
>
> ISVs are interviewed to see how optimistic they are about the long term
> future of OS/400, and what has hurt that, and what its competitive
> strengths are.  Then there is a comparison ot IBM sales to the competition,
> and how the numbers compare.  Is one AS/400 the equal of 100ds or thousands
> of Windows servers?
>
> The article includes links to others in the OS/400 ecosystem series.
> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh112105-story02.html

its a main stream media conspiracy! ... the article makes no mention
of the needed technical improvements which are not happening for the
system.  The QINTER subsystem cant run multi threaded jobs which means
JAVA cant be used for green screen programming. The 10 character name
limit.  The system APIs have to be reworked to use JAVA objects. 
Because RPG cant multithread it does not work well for server side
apps like web serving.   Would help a lot if RPG was upgraded just
like MSFT has continued to upgrade VB.

-Steve

>
> And here ... the server market will grow to $ 80 billion in 5 years, if you
> believe a certain research report by people who might not understand some
> aspects of the computing industry
> Read on, President Bush awards IBM with the National Medal of Technology..
> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh112105-story05.html
>
>
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