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Volume 16, Number 19 -- May 14, 2007

You Know You Have Been in the AS/400 Market Too Long When

Published: May 14, 2007

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

We all get too much email these days, and as the editor in chief of an online publishing company whose email was plastered all over the Universe--well, Google's cache, anyway--I get so much spam that my filter can't handle it all. A lot of it still gets through.

I knew I was in the i5/OS and OS/400 market too long when I saw the following email title. . . .





Say 'YES' to perfect s3x!





. . . and I immediately thought, "Who is trying to sell me an AS/400?"

Seriously.



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Some Thoughts on i5 Spending Patterns

IBM Sees Green in Going Green in Data Centers

Children's Foundation Blossoms from Sirius Computer

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More Reader Feedback on User-Based System i Pricing . . . IBM Readies Project Kobe to Speed SAP Deployments on System i . . . Java Finally Open Sourced Completely--Almost . . . Vision Solutions Extends Service Certification, Joins ISV Advantage Initiative . . . TomorrowNow Says Biz is Booming, Opens Mexico Office . . . You Know You Have Been in the AS/400 Market Too Long When . . .

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