Re: OS/400 i5/OS

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One of my customers recently had a board meeting (board members elected 
from the membership).  During the meeting the new chief PITA in the 
group, a PC bigot demanded that the organization immediately make plans 
to dump the AS/400 for something more modern. "It's old green screen 
only crap and has long since outlived it's usefulness."  The VP IS 
replied that they had replaced the AS/400 with an eserver i5 a year ago 
and they are now using an all web interface. (The same interface that 
had been running on the AS/400 for two years by that time!)  They guy's 
response was "About Time!"  Gotta love a good name change.

AS/400 must die.

- Larry

ps: For those IBMers reading this list. Please work on the cheat sheets 
used by 1-800-IBM-SERV. (BOTH hardware and software)  It's amazing how 
often I explain that I'm calling about an i5 or iSeries or about i5/OS 
and they finally exclaim: "So you have an AS/400 then! Why didn't you 
say so?!" 
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> Subject: Re: OS/400 i5/OS
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> Thats the very reason why the AS400 moniker is still with us and will never
> die!
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