Re: Microsoft-AS/400 Story True

I want to help Alex Woodie locate where in the archives we have had past 
discussion of this topic of Microsoft allegedly once having 23 AS/400, trying 
to convert to some ungodly number of NT like around 1200, abandoning the 
project & now using an ASP that uses AS/400ds.  My memory is that it is a 
recurring topic & often it is in one of those threads that starts with some 
unrelated title.

I am not sure how long I have been on MIDRANGE-L ... I joined some time in 
year 2000 ... I have been on BPCS_L now for like 2 years.  There was a time 
that the archives were lost due to David not having the resources for them & 
this has been resolved.

http://archive.midrange.com/ vintage 2000-August got redone

My first search is for Microsoft & 400 in the same e-mail & I expect to get 
some hits on this story & some on people with some technical challenge 
related to the primary discussion topics of these forums.

1822 matches for "Microsoft & 400" & I see a bunch of Microsoft in the news 
due to Justice Dept, favorite target of humor, security problems.

63 matches for "Microsoft & 400 & conversion" but it is all 400 customers 
with conversion challenges such as OV/400 & MS equivalents, and people who 
have one foot in each of the worlds.  The most promising for future search 
criteria that might interest Alex are "My Customer" "AS/400 and NT" 
"Favorable Comparisons" but I have not found any of it yet.

1362 matches for "Microsoft & AS/400 & NT" 
45 matches for "Microsoft & AS/400 & NT & ASP" but it looks like more of the 
same

My problem here is that I did not look at the detail of the posts unless the 
subject title was promising & as we know, there is often not that correlation.

I hope that my effort has been helpful for Alex locating prior discussions of 
this, at least what not to try.

Alister William Macintyre 
Computer Data Janitor etc. of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 on 400 model 170 OS4 V4R3 
(forerunner to IBM e-Server i-Series 400)  @ http://www.cen-elec.com Central 
Industries of Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and 
electrical sub-assemblies

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