Re: IBM Advert during Steelers/Broncho's game...

[Jan Megannon <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

What fascinates me is that the competition hears just as well as we do. 
How many of them taped it, just to replay it to their customers? "Hear 
there!! Didn't he just say 'iSeries eServer...?' You see, they are not 
even sure of it themselves!!"

Folks, IBM should just drop the cr@p. Make the iSeries a database 
server/warehouse/generator on its own, with its own OS. Allow it to 
intelligently serve, index & manage and build its own content as per 
defined _access_ rules. It will be allowed to interrogate any db on any 
platform within it's enrolled environment, identify the structure and 
content of each column and extract or massage that data for its own 
selfish interests. DB2/400 (whatever it's present guise) is one of the 
most (if not THE MOST) secure database platforms available from a DBA 
and management perspective.

IBM can even give away DataIntegrator etc. Just as long as it can 
harness the content of _any_ database for the interest of its customer. 
In so doing, the iSeries / i5 can become the greatest _content_ server 
ever. And this content can come in any form or medium it wants to. 
Regardless of the client it serves, be this M$, Linux, AIX, OS/i5 or any 
other. The great attractions of the i5 lie in that it is easy to access, 
neat, clean, secure and predictable. In view of the fact that there are 
already so many platforms and applications that both host and present 
similair comtent, the i5 can gain the edge based on the fact that it can 
host ASCII/EBCEDIC, is accessable via both IBM / MS / Openource code and 
publishes all access/API code in the OpenSource environment.

In the same way that IBM is marketing the client/server component of the 
i5, why does it not market 'Interactive i5 datbse accees' via the same 
way? Or are we the idiots that they hint we are?


GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> "I heard the voice over guy say, "iSeries eServer...."."
>
> I heard that too.
>
> Regards, Jerry
>
> Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
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