Re: Offload from the AS/400

on 11/06/97at 09:40 AM, the Great and Grand  Wazir "Art Tostaine, Jr."
<atostain@crecomp.com> said:


Because of an increase in business, some operations are slow.  I think

the best option (which BTW is the least amount of revenue for me), is to

upgrade the 400. Not to rewrite.  Anywhere.

He needs both the machine and some rewrites Art, and the AS/400 can give
him that.  Has he been hearing about the www and home pages? The new
AS/400 comes with one already to go. Of course it is a sample, but it is
there, and it is real.  Does he want his customers to be able to look up
their own expediting information, yet be secure?  The AS/400 gives him the
vehicle, right now.  Does he need a reliable server that is secure? The
AS/400 does that, right now.  Art, all that the MIS guy wants to do is
there, now, in the AS/400.  The most reliable hardware on the planet, a
proven firewall, a software system that is  _proven_  in the client's own
shop, the facility to begin doing some client/server (which you really do
want to do, but at a controlled pace, with Delphi, or VRPG, or VB, or
Obsydian, or any of a number of first rate products out there.)  Art, the
AS/400 in fact does all that he wants to do.  I'll admit to being an IBM
bigot, but I'd bet a buck that if he saw an AS/400 next to a HP or Dell
server he'd choose the black one everytime.


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Booth Martin     
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