I may get flamed for forwarding the message below. It came from a person on the mailing list for the System i. Sounds like they are having similar concerns as we regarding the future that IBM plans for "legacy" customers.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) Administrative Services Group 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or proprietary information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Richter Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:00 AM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: IBM's Frank Soltis "let go" On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Neil Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's plain to see that there's a purge going on of the Rochester faithful by the Armonk politburo. It's all about services revenue > and "i" just doesn't play that game for IBM because of its ease of use. Don Rima pulled his head out of the sand years ago, > it's time we all did the same. it is about IBM adopting LINUX and getting out of the operating system, languages and framework business. The decent thing for IBM to do is open source and/or sell off the IBM i operating system. -Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
