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The Midrange Manager: What's in a Name?
** This thread discusses the article: The Midrange Manager: What's in a Name? **
And I agree whole-heartedly. Doesn't IBM ever listen to its customers? They have such a great machine in the iSeries/AS400 or whatever and still they manage to screw it up. The revolving door of software product names also makes my head spin. It makes me mad that the future of this box is not as secure as it should be because its makers are so incompetent at marketing it! -
The Midrange Manager: What's in a Name?
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I think there is not such concept at this level. Why should MS, Oracle and others have *good marketing* and IBM with its economic power do not. I think it is a matter of profit, and as other companies have proven, there is profit in selling more *not so good products* than a few high quality system as the OS/400 platform. This way, you will need a server for database, another for application, another for web apps, ... Instead of using only one for database, application and intranet for example. Am I too suspicious?Comment
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Bob, I agree with you on every count. IBM has never known how to market AS/400. Why did they, in the first place insist on calling the system by the platform name? People talk about VMS,zOS, AIX, Linux, SCO, DOS, Netware NT, Win200, XP all operating system names. IBM made a rod for it's own back by not calling everything to do with the system OS/400, which is what I do now. Most IBM sales people understand PC's and PC Servers because they use them, Linux and AIX is a 'grown-up' (no offence meant) PC type operating system so they sort of understand that. Mainframes are specialist and they can't touch those but what are these strange iSeries/AS400 things????? I hear all the time, and have done for many years, of people migrating from OS/400 to WinNT/2K and you're right, they invariable spend a shed load of cash and time only to find out that it doesn't work and is nowhere near as reliable. I say give Malcolm Haines a HUGE worldwide marketing budget solely to spend on getting the OS/400 word out but please start the campaign within IBM. Phew, that's better. Regards Glenn Robinson Quattro Consulting Limited p.s. just off to compile a WebSphere ILE RPGIV program ;-)Comment
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The Midrange Manager: What's in a Name?
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I wish the AS/400 had won the hardware or the OS wars -- but it hasn't. the iSeries is an RS6000 with a bit turned on in the chip. There is no longer an AS/400. There is OS/400, unfortunately it doesn't run Oracle, which means unless you are JD Edwards (oops, no longer) or Manhattan Assoc. there is no main stream (written up in the eWeek/Infoworld/ComputerWorld trade press) vendor. Even IBM has given up on selling apps for the OS (remember S/36 MAPICS?). NO growth is death. IBM has chosen Linux and open source for the midrange, not OS/400. That's too bad, reliability, security, quality hardware - they even solved connectivity years ago. Would I take another job in an iSeries shop? Probably yes, but that's thinking with my heart.Comment
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