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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (8878)	7/2/1998 9:29:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Bill, Of course you see substantial growth of an OS like OS/390 which is in the mature stage of its life. These are large to very large scale platforms and one doesnt go out and buy 3 or 4 of them on the weekend to solve a point solution (like what happens on distributed Intel platforms). The high growth on the Intel platform OSs is due to filling in the gap between point solution requirements vs supply. So let me ask you Bill, based on your statements, are you predicting that OS/390 and Unix are senile and will be dead products in the industry within 5 years? Careful how you answer this one Bill. Many a so called analyst called the Mainframe dead back in the late 80's and look how wrong they were. Did you know that the new S390 and OS/390 is being used for very large scale Web-Server solutions, E-Commerce practices, and distriuted computing solutions? These are solutions that OSs like NT are years away from providing effective solutions. The mainframe is far from dead and senile. It is simply evolving to take on new roles in the client/server arena that current Intel OS's cannot yet address. And NT is the farest behind in the list of Intel OSs when it comes to delivering on R.A.S. criteria. Using the word "senile" to describe mature is the part of your message that I word disagree and take offense to. You sound like one of those Micro-computer Biggots of the 80's who said that the world can be run purely from the Intel platform and all the other platforms will die shortly. NOT! Toy