Re: Moving forward or backward...

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Very interesting.

Check out this article also:   *http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33584*

Note that in it Microsoft is *attempting* to create a stateful programming
environment on the server.

I just wrote an article for IBMSystemsMag that calls out the fact that
Microsoft is just learning about these benefits and is using them as selling
points, when IBM i has had them for decades but does zero advertising for
the features (that are time tested btw!).

... and all the while IBM continues to pursue open source and loosely couple
technologies as the "way of the future" when they could just enhance some of
the stuff they *fully own* to completely wipe out most all other servers and
their capabilities.  And make A LOT of money while doing it.  The whole IT
industry is in a state of "jump ship to whatever technologies give me the
most ROI in the next 3 years" mode and IBM should capitalize on that with
IBMi.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>wrote:

> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/feb10/02-24WMSLaunchPR.mspx
>
> Guess they were afraid to call it a "mainframe" but this really is going
> back to the days of the VT-100 dump-terminal on the user's desk with all the
> processing occurring in one place. Not even thin client that does processing
> at the desktop or even 5250 that did some processing at the desktop.
>
>
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