RE: Food for Thought

["Wintermute, Sharon" <Sharon.Wintermute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trevor, 

That was what I was trying to do.   People still seem to miss the boat
and assume it is about the hardware which it is not.  It's the mindset
that needs to change. 

Sharon Wintermute

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Perry
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:29 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Food for Thought

James,

Could you be any more negative? Changing socks should be done at least
once
a year!

If we keep complaining about IBM, then we will keep going around in
circles
- as evidenced by Booth's 427th complaint about his business card.

Can you think of something at all that is POSITIVE about IBM i?
Something we
can applaud? Something that makes you want to come to work each day?
Something that IBM i has that no one else can match?

How about it?
Trevor



On 11/18/08 12:06 PM, "James Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Face it.
>
> There are people at IBM who despise the whole Midrange concept, and
have
> done so from the day the folks in Rochester decided to build a real
> computer, instead of the new-and-improved plugboard-programmable unit
> record machine they'd been told to build. That's why they've been
> changing names more often than some people change socks. That's why,
> instead of improving the 5250 data stream until it was on a par with
X,
> (which was well within reach in the InfoWindow II era), they abandoned
> it entirely.