midrange.com - In My Humble Opinion

We look at the iSeries as having this well-deserved reputation as superintegrated and ultrareliable

-- Tim O'Brien, a senior product manager at Microsoft

If you read the article, there are a number of great marketing points that IBM should pick up on...

• there are iSeries customers who have gone years without having to reboot their systems.
• You just don't get that level of reliability and availability from other operating systems
• It's also had tremendous security. It's never had a virus or a successful hacking attack.

I'm a little disturbed that ASNA is signing up with Microsoft. In the past I've used a lot of ASNA's midrange products.

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