Re: FYI - Press Inquiry: AS/400 Tenth Anniversary.

Jai:

Please try not to talk too much about the AS/400.  Every shop will then buy the
AS/400 and this will make the economy go much faster thereby leading to Alan
Greenspan tightening up monetary supply.  You see the d..n AS/400 refuses to
crash like Win/95, NT, or Netware.  It corrects a lot of problems and isolates
the ones it cannot so the system keeps humming allowing the systems personnell 
to
deal with problems at their leisure.  AS/400 was introduced on June 21, 1988 by
IBM to replace their 10 year old S/38 line and providing the S/36 people with a
migration path.  IBM kept constantly tinkering with the AS/400 hardware but they
kept the OS stable enough to run on all AS/400 hardware platforms.  This way 
even
the lowliest AS/400 (about $10,000) can run the same program (not even
recompiled) running on the mighty AS/400 ($1M or so).   AS/400 is now got both
CMOS or RISC based hardware processors.  It is also available in different
client/server versions besides the traditional midrange clients.  It can do
internet, web serving, provide firewall, tcp/ip, DNS, e-mail, language from 
Java,
C, PL/I, Fortran, COBOL, Basic, RPG, and can incorporate Visual Age products.
The underlying database server DB/400 is very robust and allows for many ODBC
engines to access the data.  Last time somebody told me that 90% of the Fortune
1000 use the AS/400 (I cant authenticate this but you may be able to).

So please, please stop this article writing now and let us keep the secret to
ourself till the next recession hits...

Dave Mahadevan
Exec VP
Stoner & Associates
205 W Fourth St., Suite 225
Cincinnati OH 45202
8 years on AS/400
Model F35 running V3R2 of OS/400
Native applications to support Employee Benefits Administration


> Subject:  Press Inquiry: AS/400 Tenth Anniversary.
>
> Hi
>
> I am a senior editor of Computerworld in Framingham, Mass.
>
> I am doing a story on the tenth anniversary of the AS/400 looking at some
> of the reasons behind the continuing success of the platform. People have
> been writing-off the AS/400 for years but that has simply failed to happen
> for a variety of reasons. In fact, according to IBM, AS/400 sales are
> pretty robust in all geographies and revenues have actually been growing at
> double-digits. So much for a platform that was supposed to have been wiped
> out by Unix and now by NT.
>
> So what is going on and why? And what do users think about IBM's AS/400
> efforts over the years--and particularly its recent strategy to widen the
> appeal of the platform?
>
>  I am hoping to speak with a number of AS/400 users to try and answer those
> questions. Would be great if you could spare a few minutes of your time to
> either call me at (800) 343 6474 ext 8220, or e-mail me at the above
> address.
>
> In case you are e-mailing me, please include full name, title, company
> name, location, number of years on the AS/400, the size of the installation
> and a brief description of the applications running on it.
>
> Please feel free to distribute this note to other AS/400 shops too.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
>
> Jai
>



--
Thank You.

Regards

Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net


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