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  • Subject: Re: Platform test cases.
  • From: "Jamie Coles" <jcoles@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:21:27 +0100

There is of course the well publicised and well denied case of Microsoft, or 
rather their FM company, which fits your scenario but I
doubt you'll get any comment from them!

This has featured many times on this list so I won't go through the pain of 
repeating it (plus I might get sued!)


----- Original Message -----
From: "William A Pack" <tonypack@bellsouth.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 3:44 AM
Subject: Platform test cases.


> Help!,
> I have a small customer that is running a mixture of MAPICS and custom code
> on a 9406-600.  They are looking for replacement software and will probably
> look to move off of the AS/400 to a Windoze platform.  I feel that this is a
> mistake, since they do not have a programming staff and have not put any
> changes in on thier software for 3+ years.  I have a few test cases that I
> can quote, but I would like to ask this forum if they have any similar cases
> where the customer moved off of the AS/400 to Windoze and was sorry.  I know
> that this is a biased request, but in this case, the bset value is to fix
> what you have got instead of trading the current set of problems for a set
> of new, but unknown problems.
> TIA,
> Tony Pack
> tonypack@bellsouth.net
>
>
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