RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

["Jim Damato" <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>On the System i, however the green screen looks the same 
>as it always has.  Sure, you've got ops-nav and web based
>interfaces.  But for way, way to may, the only familiar 
>interface to the System i is the green screen. 

Using this logic the only familiar interface for a Unix server is ...
well there is none.  The Unix GUI's are not widespread because they're
administrative tools.  Telnet likewise is not a familiar interface for
the world of business application users -- the Windows PC is the
familiar interface for Unix.

If you're running a web-based app for an iSeries, folks are going to
attribute the app's interface to the client -- a Windows PC running IE.

And the familiar interface for a Windows server is another Windows PC.

The whole discussion if "familiar interfaces" is dumb.  A Windows server
doesn't really have a "user" interface.  A Unix server doesn't have much
of one.  An iSeries is handicapped by the fact that it has one.