Re: now THIS is a marketing program

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/21/07, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Do you know that this group comprises primarily System i proponents
> and
> >evangelists? Promoting a server that is inferior is rather
> inappropriate for
> >this forum.
>
> But this list (and more accurately, many companies represented on this
> list) are also very big proponents of burying their heads in the sand
> and ignoring progress. If you want an example, look at the adoption rate
> of ILE, or the HTML capabilities of most (NOT ALL!!!) iSeries
> programmers;

in defense of those who have not adopted, ILE should be easier to use.
If the srvpgm had better support for reflection there would be no need
for PR specs. signature violations are confusing, there is no need for
them if ILE is modernized.

VB.NET programmers commonly use class library assemblies. How many VB6
programmers used COM to the extent of its capabilities?

on this page is bill zeitler talking to investors last week:
http://www.ibm.com/investor/events/analyst0507/index.phtml

he says the power6 being announced on monday will have twice the
performance with the same power usage as the power5.  Great news, but
bad for sales of our system over the next few quarters as customers
wait for the 7600CPW system i6 models to be announced.

-Steve