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Maybe I'm missing something here, but we made the transition to 64 bit in 1995, and pulled it of over a weekend for most customers. *EVERYTHING worked, day one. Some LPPs were dropped, but the fallout rate of LPPs on the 400 platform has been far less than that of various PC platforms. The only significant LPP to fallout and bite IBM in the ass was OV/400, but that product only got developed because someone at IBM had their head up where they ultimately got bit. There are alternatives to buy an OV/400 replacement product at a significant random (err... price), there are PC alternatives, and I have a customer that has directed me to develop a DDM alternative for mail merge from a V5R2 platform to an older system at V4R5. They have 90,000 active mail merge documents, but then again, they bought into the fact in 1988 that OV/400 was a strategic product for IBM. Clearly IBM did a billion times better transitioning customers from the 48 bit AS/400 platform to the 64 bit replacement, than HP has done with their HP3000 customers that have essentially been sentenced to death. Many of them are looking at the 400. I was unaware of the fact that OS/400 native database (I shutter to call it DB2, because it's so much better than any other database branded as DB2.) handles ASCII collating sequences just as well as it does it's native EBCDIC. Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com "Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxx To: "'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> omm.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: Where is IBM? midrange-l-bounces@x idrange.com 04/22/2003 08:07 AM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion The CEO of AMD, Hector Ruiz, is on CNBC right now talking about how important their new 64-bit Opteron chip is because of the huge amounts of data in the world that need to be addressed. He said you will be able to order it today after their press release. Another web article talks about how to make the transition from 32 to 64-bit. Now where the heck is IBM to say they know a thing or two about this subject? _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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